Grants Pass
“Louise sat upon a stool close to the vast picture window that looked down into New Town, watching the clouds chase the fleeing sun over the thin strip of blue that was the Atlantic; watching their obtrusive return cast the resort into grey twilight shadow, whipping up sand devils and bending low the spines of palm trees.
There were no signs of life. This should have been the beginning of the Fiesta de Carmen. The promenades and cobbled streets should have been swollen to capacity and filled wit...h lambent light and dance and song. The bars and restaurants of the Avenida de las Playas should have spilled their illumination onto road and pavement; their neon welcomes stretching from new town to old in wavering lines of pink and green and gold. Fishing boats strung with fairy lights, their bows painted gold and silver, should have shone in stark relief against the darkening ocean as they called for good summer catches.
Instead there was nothing.
She considered that such dearth of life might have lost some of its capacity to shock, to frighten.MoreLess
There were no signs of life. This should have been the beginning of the Fiesta de Carmen. The promenades and cobbled streets should have been swollen to capacity and filled wit...h lambent light and dance and song. The bars and restaurants of the Avenida de las Playas should have spilled their illumination onto road and pavement; their neon welcomes stretching from new town to old in wavering lines of pink and green and gold. Fishing boats strung with fairy lights, their bows painted gold and silver, should have shone in stark relief against the darkening ocean as they called for good summer catches.
Instead there was nothing.
She considered that such dearth of life might have lost some of its capacity to shock, to frighten.MoreLess
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