The Marbury Lens
“My ankle hurt. I thought it was probably bleeding inside my sock. I didn’t look. It just wasn’t healing well.
Yeah, I remember you, Freddie.
Fuck you, too.
As soon as I forget about you, you really will be dead.
I ran fast. Sweat dripped from my chin and elbows. Sometimes, I’d look back to see where it left dark coins trailing my direction along the pathway.
The park seemed to stretch forever beside an expanse of lawn where men in white played cricket, and blankets made red or yellow rectangles... in the sun where lovers lay tangled, sleeping off the drowsy contents of emptied wine bottles.
Conner and Dana.
And everyone seemed to be looking at me.
Quit it, Jack.
A towering stone building on the other side of the trees to my left supported an immense clock on its highest peak. Five o’clock. I had to think about what time that really was to me.
I kept running, over a bridge and along the shore of a lake where an old man stood throwing crumbs to the birds that came out onto the grass between the water and the path.MoreLess
Yeah, I remember you, Freddie.
Fuck you, too.
As soon as I forget about you, you really will be dead.
I ran fast. Sweat dripped from my chin and elbows. Sometimes, I’d look back to see where it left dark coins trailing my direction along the pathway.
The park seemed to stretch forever beside an expanse of lawn where men in white played cricket, and blankets made red or yellow rectangles... in the sun where lovers lay tangled, sleeping off the drowsy contents of emptied wine bottles.
Conner and Dana.
And everyone seemed to be looking at me.
Quit it, Jack.
A towering stone building on the other side of the trees to my left supported an immense clock on its highest peak. Five o’clock. I had to think about what time that really was to me.
I kept running, over a bridge and along the shore of a lake where an old man stood throwing crumbs to the birds that came out onto the grass between the water and the path.MoreLess
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