Love & Darts (9781937316075)
“Romance wasn’t the point.
After one thirty in the morning, she took him inside, down a shotgun hallway, into the living room, and left him there. In a way he was an enemy loved. This oil rig welder who’d been all over the world stood half turning back to see where she’d gone and half looking around to see where he was in this needs-some-more-wall-art silence. It was the beginning of the one hour before he found his way into her smile.
She did not know him, though.
There are those long-faithful ...loves properly absent in the world, old minefield loves, where two safe souls waltz around each other in the well-patrolled confines of a security setting—picking conversations to have about logistics, relying on favorites, looking at comfort food photos on 4x6 cards, giving annual gifts meaning nothing to the rest of the world. But there are also extreme momentary loves, ready to be smashed and forgotten, or, more often, intimately eaten alive.
She didn’t really invite him. And he didn’t exactly say he’d come.MoreLess
After one thirty in the morning, she took him inside, down a shotgun hallway, into the living room, and left him there. In a way he was an enemy loved. This oil rig welder who’d been all over the world stood half turning back to see where she’d gone and half looking around to see where he was in this needs-some-more-wall-art silence. It was the beginning of the one hour before he found his way into her smile.
She did not know him, though.
There are those long-faithful ...loves properly absent in the world, old minefield loves, where two safe souls waltz around each other in the well-patrolled confines of a security setting—picking conversations to have about logistics, relying on favorites, looking at comfort food photos on 4x6 cards, giving annual gifts meaning nothing to the rest of the world. But there are also extreme momentary loves, ready to be smashed and forgotten, or, more often, intimately eaten alive.
She didn’t really invite him. And he didn’t exactly say he’d come.MoreLess
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