Emily's Ghost
“The short trip back to Woods Hole was made under leaden skies that did nothing to dispel her continuing melancholy. It didn't help that Fergus still was not showing himself. He's probably afraid to come out, she told herself grimly.
It was almost laughable.
She'd managed to drive a full-fledged ghost into hiding and to turn a warm, loving family man into a block of ice. I was right in the first place. I don't belong in relationships. When and if this comic opera ends, I shall retire to a mounta...inside and devote myself to the study of Zen Buddhism.
She had just enough time to shower, change into fresh clothes, and hop a train to Lee's office. At two fifty-nine she found Millie Cusack hard at work at a computer terminal, the remnants of a McDonald's lunch at her right elbow. Not surprisingly for a Sunday, the offices were nearly empty of their dozen or so staffers. From an inner sanctum somewhere she heard a printer spewing out text.
"The senator called from the airport," the secretary explained.MoreLess
It was almost laughable.
She'd managed to drive a full-fledged ghost into hiding and to turn a warm, loving family man into a block of ice. I was right in the first place. I don't belong in relationships. When and if this comic opera ends, I shall retire to a mounta...inside and devote myself to the study of Zen Buddhism.
She had just enough time to shower, change into fresh clothes, and hop a train to Lee's office. At two fifty-nine she found Millie Cusack hard at work at a computer terminal, the remnants of a McDonald's lunch at her right elbow. Not surprisingly for a Sunday, the offices were nearly empty of their dozen or so staffers. From an inner sanctum somewhere she heard a printer spewing out text.
"The senator called from the airport," the secretary explained.MoreLess
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