The Near Miss (2015)
“Drops trembled their way down the pane. A paperback sat on his lap, lit by lamplight. A comfortable home, his girlfriend had fled. Where was she on this rainy, rainy night?
He sighed, closed his book and dialed his parents’ number.
‘What’s it been now, over a week? That girl was always going to go and join the circus,’ his father growled.
‘That’s not fair, Dad. Romy never got over losing her parents.’ ‘We all lose our parents.’ ‘She was young.’ ‘She was an adult!’ snapped his father. ‘I was onl...y a kid when we lost our parents.’ A farmhouse fire, an older brother who drove the siblings away from the inferno that their parents stayed to fight, and to die in. Eddy could be surprised anew each time he remembered it, his father orphaned and small.
‘You don’t really know her the way I do.’ His father choked, as if on something unspeakable, and continued. ‘Well, I’m sorry. But you’ll meet someone else—’ ‘Don’t say that! I don’t want to meet someone else.MoreLess
He sighed, closed his book and dialed his parents’ number.
‘What’s it been now, over a week? That girl was always going to go and join the circus,’ his father growled.
‘That’s not fair, Dad. Romy never got over losing her parents.’ ‘We all lose our parents.’ ‘She was young.’ ‘She was an adult!’ snapped his father. ‘I was onl...y a kid when we lost our parents.’ A farmhouse fire, an older brother who drove the siblings away from the inferno that their parents stayed to fight, and to die in. Eddy could be surprised anew each time he remembered it, his father orphaned and small.
‘You don’t really know her the way I do.’ His father choked, as if on something unspeakable, and continued. ‘Well, I’m sorry. But you’ll meet someone else—’ ‘Don’t say that! I don’t want to meet someone else.MoreLess
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