A Hole in the Ground Owned by a Liar by Daniel Pyne

Author:Daniel Pyne
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781619020375
Publisher: Counterpoint Press
Published: 2018-05-15T16:00:00+00:00

EIGHTEEN

The following Friday, to the wobbly rhythm of the Junior Orchestra’s wan “Pomp and Circumstance,” a sea of black squares shuffled, shuffled, shuffled down the steep center aisle of the Evergreen High School football stadium grandstands, a nervous mosaic. Graduating seniors descended to the track, spilling off single file to sit in folding chairs that faced a temporary stage.

And little more than a mile away on the diagonal, Grant’s black Camaro was parked across the street from Lorraine’s split-level, and he leaned against the front fender, watching the house and frowning as if he was disappointed in himself for even being there. Due to the eccentric vagaries of canyon acoustics, over the shoulder of forest that separated river from lake he could hear the faint strains of the graduation march mingled with the soft bubble and hiss of the river bending behind him.

It’s yours.

Lorraine finally passed in front of a bedroom window upstairs, holding her baby. She stopped when she saw Grant. She stayed there for a moment, staring back at him, almost truculent. She waved and smiled.

It’s yours.

Grant jumped off the hood of the car, ran to the driver’s side, got in, gunned the engine, popped the clutch, and was already halfway down the street by the time Lorraine appeared on the front porch of her house, discontented but not surprised.

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