Blue Screen by Parker Robert B

Author:Parker, Robert B. [Parker, Robert B.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Sunny Randall
Published: 2011-06-04T00:27:22+00:00

B l u e S c r e e n

looked at the ocean as if there were something to see. Neither of us spoke.

Finally I said, “How is it going with your ex?”

Jesse turned and looked at me thoughtfully for a long time.

“Mediocre,” he said after a while.

“I thought it was going well,” I said.

He shrugged. “It was,” he said. “Now it’s not.”

“I’m sorry,” I said. “Would you like to talk about it?”

“No,” he said. “Yes.”

I waited.

“The truth is, of course, she was the only person I could ever really talk to about this sort of thing and . . .”

He shrugged. I leaned a little toward him, but I didn’t say anything.

“I would like to talk about it,” he said after a while.

He turned his head and looked at me for the first time.

“I’d like to talk about it with you,” he said. “But not now.

Not yet.”

“When the time comes,” I said. “You can tell me your story, and I’ll tell you mine.”

Jesse smiled at me. “Misery loves company,” he said.

The snowfall had increased. A single herring gull drifted through the snow squall, circling down above the car, hoping perhaps for a discarded french fry. It landed beside the car and hopped around, cocking its head. It reminded me of Rosie, with its expressionless black eyes and its intensity. There were no french fries, nor popcorn, nor orange peels, nor bread crumbs. After a time, the gull flew away into the falling snow.

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ROSIE AND I met Felix and another man in the parking lot of a Dunkin’ Donuts in Andrews Square. Felix sat behind the wheel, the other man in the front with him. Rosie and I got into the backseat. As soon as we got in I unhooked Rosie’s leash and she jumped into the front, jostling the passenger in the process, and squirmed onto Felix’s lap.

The passenger said, “What the fuck?”

“It’s Rosie,” Felix said. “I like Rosie.”

Rosie’s tail thump-thumped against Felix’s wide rib cage.

He patted her. The passenger looked as if he wasn’t a dog person. But, like most of the world, he preferred not to argue with Felix.

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