Puerto Vallarta Squeeze (2009)
“She’d borrowed an iron and had pressed her yellow dress, bathed, and washed her black hair, letting it hang straight and long. A pale orange hibiscus was fastened just behind her left ear. Up close and over time, even the exotic becomes common and un-beheld, and in the daily slog of life, Danny sometimes forgot how beautiful Luz María could be. She had a beauty all her own, warm and unaffected, almost the peasant but with a hint of something more—on the borderline of regal, maybe.
As he and... the shooter rounded a corner and saw her on the cantina porch, Danny realized he’d always thought of her as a girl.
But along the way, María de la Luz Santos had become a woman in all the dimensions that defined a woman, and Danny had somehow missed the transformation.
The shooter couldn’t stop looking at her, stood there locked down and staring, until he caught himself. He cleared his throat and sat on the porch railing, scuffling dust around with his desert boot, looking first at his feet, then up at the curve of night and the stars sprinkled across it.MoreLess
As he and... the shooter rounded a corner and saw her on the cantina porch, Danny realized he’d always thought of her as a girl.
But along the way, María de la Luz Santos had become a woman in all the dimensions that defined a woman, and Danny had somehow missed the transformation.
The shooter couldn’t stop looking at her, stood there locked down and staring, until he caught himself. He cleared his throat and sat on the porch railing, scuffling dust around with his desert boot, looking first at his feet, then up at the curve of night and the stars sprinkled across it.MoreLess
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