Weekends in Carolina
“In reality, she was staring out the window through the rain at the dark windows of Sean’s barn. She moved to check her watch on her belt loop, then remembered she hadn’t put it on because they couldn’t be out in the fields today, so she checked the clock on the screen. Eleven in the morning. Sidney and Norma Jean were under the protection of the packing-house roof seeding celeriac. Sean wasn’t needed for anything, but he should still be awake and moving in the barn.
And maybe he was. And ma...ybe he was hungover.
She looked back at the sentence she had typed. “Max’s Vegetable Patch is five years old, started when Max Backstrom moved to North Carolina from Illinois.” A perfectly fine sentence that was too boring to inspire anyone to invest money. Which was what happened when you stuck a woman who’d only ever wanted a job outside playing in the dirt at a desk with a blank page.
Why isn’t he awake? Her suspicions darted about in her brain, pirouetting and sticking their pointy, hard toes where they didn’t belong.MoreLess
And maybe he was. And ma...ybe he was hungover.
She looked back at the sentence she had typed. “Max’s Vegetable Patch is five years old, started when Max Backstrom moved to North Carolina from Illinois.” A perfectly fine sentence that was too boring to inspire anyone to invest money. Which was what happened when you stuck a woman who’d only ever wanted a job outside playing in the dirt at a desk with a blank page.
Why isn’t he awake? Her suspicions darted about in her brain, pirouetting and sticking their pointy, hard toes where they didn’t belong.MoreLess
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