New River Blues (2009)
“The neighbors huddled in one room, taking careful sips of tall drinks and comparing insurance plans, while a bigger, louder crowd of theater people milled around them, sharing inside jokes and grabbing refreshments with both hands.
A third group, young, clustered in the dining room drinking long-neck beers and wine coolers out of an ice-tub in the bay window. They all talked at once to a beautiful blonde girl who evidently lived there. When the rooms were full of laughing, swilling people the b...londe, at a signal from the hostess, took her place under a chandelier hung with balloons and began to open her birthday presents. She showed each gift around, hugged the donor and declared each item to be something she’d always wanted.
Several older guests offered toasts praising her beauty and wit, and a window-rattling cheer went up from the kids when she blew out eighteen candles. Then the birthday girl and her friends ate a lot of cake very fast, kissed the hostess and went out the door in a babbling rush into a red November sunset.MoreLess
A third group, young, clustered in the dining room drinking long-neck beers and wine coolers out of an ice-tub in the bay window. They all talked at once to a beautiful blonde girl who evidently lived there. When the rooms were full of laughing, swilling people the b...londe, at a signal from the hostess, took her place under a chandelier hung with balloons and began to open her birthday presents. She showed each gift around, hugged the donor and declared each item to be something she’d always wanted.
Several older guests offered toasts praising her beauty and wit, and a window-rattling cheer went up from the kids when she blew out eighteen candles. Then the birthday girl and her friends ate a lot of cake very fast, kissed the hostess and went out the door in a babbling rush into a red November sunset.MoreLess
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