The Hot Country (2012)
“Made only more awkward by the fact that they seem, not infrequently, to be fools about me. I walked away from my encounter with Luisa and followed the trolley tracks back toward the zócalo, at one point stepping aside for, but otherwise ignoring, a trolley heading in my direction. I needed to walk.
When I reached the Plaza, the sound of a salon orchestra playing a danzon was wafting out of the Diligencias, but I did not go into the portales to continue drinking, even to get the taste of pul...que out of my mouth. Instead, I went straight toward my rooms to work on my story—for it was time to write about the female sniper of Vera Cruz, La Nueva Soldadera Vera Cruz—and I found the washer girl of the afternoon dalliance curled asleep beside my courtyard door, in the midst of being a fool about me.
“What are you doing here?” I asked as she was knuckling the sleep out of her eyes.
She looked up, and those eyes were unreadable in the dark, though it was all too familiar to me.MoreLess
When I reached the Plaza, the sound of a salon orchestra playing a danzon was wafting out of the Diligencias, but I did not go into the portales to continue drinking, even to get the taste of pul...que out of my mouth. Instead, I went straight toward my rooms to work on my story—for it was time to write about the female sniper of Vera Cruz, La Nueva Soldadera Vera Cruz—and I found the washer girl of the afternoon dalliance curled asleep beside my courtyard door, in the midst of being a fool about me.
“What are you doing here?” I asked as she was knuckling the sleep out of her eyes.
She looked up, and those eyes were unreadable in the dark, though it was all too familiar to me.MoreLess
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