Still gazing at the front of the house while pulling gently on Talsker’s ears (she had gingerly made her way down the steps to greet him), Rennie thought about how it had taken him a week just to wash and prepare the porch, carefully scraping off any loose flakes of the original dull [...]
Archive for July, 2009
Part One•Section XXIX•Paragraph 1
Posted in Part One, Section 29, tagged beer, bread and cheese, painting, Polyfilla on July 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
One•XXVIII•3
Posted in Part One, Section 28, tagged August, Farrow & Ball, fiction, Grotto of the Apparition, Lourdes, marian procession, Norway maple, perfection on July 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
”Oh, you’re in trouble, you,” Rennie affectionately reproached Talisker, who was lying on the porch when he pulled into a parking spot in front of his house. As he locked the car door, he studied the place. He sometimes forgot, when he was away, how nice it was: sheltered by an imposing Norway [...]
One•XXVIII•2
Posted in Part One, Section 28, tagged cell phone, fiction, jazz on July 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Moments later, as if prompted by his having looked at it, Rennie’s phone vibrated three times. Although he knew there was no rational foundation for his certainty, he could always tell, by the especially insistent quality of its buzzing, when it was indicating that Arden had called. Without bothering to listen to the message [...]
Part One•Section XXVIII•Paragraph 1
Posted in Part One, Section 28, tagged loneliness, Sinatra, The Way You Look Tonight, Volvo on July 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Stopping at the corner of Aimée and Morris’ street before making the right turn that would take him, in a few short blocks, to his own house, Rennie realized that he didn’t much want to go home. He hesitated, spontaneously turned left and, just as suddenly, jogged right onto a little cul-de-sac. He [...]
