Breathless (Yoga in the City Book 1) by Leigh LaValle

Author:Leigh LaValle [LaValle, Leigh]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Heart Bay Publishing
Published: 2017-05-26T18:30:00+00:00

I arrived at my condo, my jaw set, my mind made up. I put my groceries away and pulled a metal box down from the top shelf of my closet. It was issued to me by the army and had the appropriate hard, cold weight that matched the memories it contained. I hadn’t opened it in years, not since I was in the military hospital, learning to walk again.

I cracked open the lid and peered inside, half waiting for a bunch of ghosts to come blasting out and eat my face, like in that Indiana Jones movie when they opened the Ark. But it was just some random old shit. Letters, photos, and dog tags.

I poured myself a whisky—double—and sat down in front of the box. Then I laid out the mementos on my kitchen table, one by one. Some of the old photos made me laugh. We were so young. So ignorant.

“Young, dumb, and full of cum.” That was written on the bottom of one photo. Cody was in the middle, with a shit-eating grin on his face. He had one arm around me and one around Sgt. Pepper. I was posing with my AK-47 like some kind of Rambo. We looked happy. And stupid. And alive.

Sgt. Pepper killed himself last year. Peter Pellinger was his real name. I didn’t go to the funeral. I went to the Canadian Rockies for a week instead.

I took a sip of whisky—smoky and biting. Then I flipped through more photos. Cody and me on a tank, Cody and me in our bunk, some French chicks we met, the other guys in our platoon—Sgt. Pepper, Wilson, Dennis, and C-Note.

And behind the photos, a collection of Cody’s scribbled notes and silly jokes. He’d leave shit everywhere. Tuck it into your pillow just to get you in trouble during inspection. Leave a joke in your shoe, just for fuck’s sake. He was a prankster at heart. And funny as shit.

Life is like my dick…just hanging out, chilling, then a woman makes it hard.

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