The Guest House
“The dormer sashes were as high as they’d go, but no breeze came through the screens. He’d found a fan in the garage, one of the old tanks he remembered as a kid that had lived atop dressers all summer long, and he was relieved to find it still worked, even if the blades were as loud as a propeller plane.
Staring up at the sloped ceiling and drawing in deep breaths of moist, warm pine, he could have been twelve years old again. The endless nights he’d lain awake under these eaves, listening ...to Hudson and his friends outside on the lawn, recently stumbled back from the beach, or holed up in one of the guest bedrooms, their laughter sailing down the hall with the faint smell of pot smoke that Hudson had told him was just candle wax, and for the longest time Cooper had believed him.
But he wasn’t twelve; wasn’t even close. His thirtieth birthday was two months away, and the house was silent, empty. No one to walk in on in the bathroom, no one to snake past on the stairs.MoreLess
Staring up at the sloped ceiling and drawing in deep breaths of moist, warm pine, he could have been twelve years old again. The endless nights he’d lain awake under these eaves, listening ...to Hudson and his friends outside on the lawn, recently stumbled back from the beach, or holed up in one of the guest bedrooms, their laughter sailing down the hall with the faint smell of pot smoke that Hudson had told him was just candle wax, and for the longest time Cooper had believed him.
But he wasn’t twelve; wasn’t even close. His thirtieth birthday was two months away, and the house was silent, empty. No one to walk in on in the bathroom, no one to snake past on the stairs.MoreLess
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