10:01 by Lance Olsen

Author:Lance Olsen [Olsen, Lance]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: 10:01
Publisher: Dzanc Books
Published: 2015-07-19T04:00:00+00:00

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STUART NAVIDSON checks his Palm one more time for good luck. Another email is waiting for him. Enjoy the movie, it says. Stuart’s head jerks up. There doesn’t seem to be anything out of the ordinary about the people sitting around him watching the trailers and commercials with mildly empty interest, and Stuart realizes, his veins filling with soda water, he should have told Valerie right away. He should have sat her down at the kitchen table and confessed everything. He should have told her about his stupid month-long middle-aged mistake with Brittany Laroche, the receptionist from Macalester with those wildly erotic braces. How the only thing he gained from the affair was, briefly and unrewardingly, the sensation of being minimally less old. Stuart can imagine the fight they would have had. It makes him cringe. But they would have survived. They always did, no matter what. They’ve been surviving for nineteen years now. Inhabiting the same life with another human being for that long is like watching yourself age in a mirror. Stuart stands, resolving here and now to phone her from the lobby. He will tell her the whole story. She will cry, naturally. She will cry, and she will shout. Stuart doesn’t blame her. But he will close his eyes, shove forward, and, in the end, she will forgive him. Stuart is convinced. She’s Valerie. That’s all there is to it. Stuart slips his Palm into his jacket pocket, stands, and looks around him. He sits. He feels like he is falling violently upward. He lowers his chin. He squeezes his armrests. One thousand and one, nine hundred eighty-nine, nine hundred seventy-seven, Stuart intones under his breath, trying to concentrate on each numeral as if it were a reason for hope, nine hundred sixty-five, nine hundred fifty-three, nine hundred forty-one…

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