The Walk On (2014)
“In fact, she had his quotes written down word for word in a notebook she took out once they were seated.
Pat and Steve’s looked like something out of the old TV show Murder, She Wrote, which Alex had grown up watching in reruns with his grandmother. She never called the show by its actual name. She would simply stand up at the end of Sunday dinner and say, “Time to watch Jessica”—Jessica Fletcher being the name of the woman who solved murder mysteries every week on the show.
The restaurant had ...a counter just inside the door, tables in the middle of the room, and booths lining the wall that looked out on a grove of trees, making it feel a lot more like Cabot Cove, Maine, than Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Alex was certain that Angela Lansbury, the star of the show, was going to walk through the door at any moment.
Alex had realized on the bike ride over that he was starving. He ordered French toast, bacon, and orange juice. Christine asked for an omelet and tomato juice.
As usual, she came right to the point.MoreLess
Pat and Steve’s looked like something out of the old TV show Murder, She Wrote, which Alex had grown up watching in reruns with his grandmother. She never called the show by its actual name. She would simply stand up at the end of Sunday dinner and say, “Time to watch Jessica”—Jessica Fletcher being the name of the woman who solved murder mysteries every week on the show.
The restaurant had ...a counter just inside the door, tables in the middle of the room, and booths lining the wall that looked out on a grove of trees, making it feel a lot more like Cabot Cove, Maine, than Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Alex was certain that Angela Lansbury, the star of the show, was going to walk through the door at any moment.
Alex had realized on the bike ride over that he was starving. He ordered French toast, bacon, and orange juice. Christine asked for an omelet and tomato juice.
As usual, she came right to the point.MoreLess
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