Catch Her When She Falls by Allison Buccola

Author:Allison Buccola [Buccola, Allison]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2022-02-02T00:00:00+00:00

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11:36 A.M., WINSTED, CONNECTICUT.

171 MILES REMAINING.

I pass by a row of antiques shops on a main street stretch, an American flag with thirteen stars displayed in front of one of them, and think of your store. Maybe you’ve done for yourself what I couldn’t. Stonesport Maps & Prints Gallery, a little shop where you can putter around in history, hang up curated maps and antique ship blueprints, lose yourself in a dusty secondhand book while tourists thumb through old sketchings in plastic casings, grouped into different cardboard boxes based on category: the Battle of Falmouth, Photography—Whaling, Shipping Routes. I hope you walk home to your little blue house after work, spend the evening with your family, sleep easily at night.

I hope you’ve really started over, Joshua. I hope you’ve done it right. What I worry about is that you lock up your shop early in the afternoon and make your way to the local bar. I worry that your friends are the other regulars and a bartender has to take you home on nights where you’ve fallen asleep with your forehead resting against the bar. I worry that when it starts getting late and you’ve found a sympathetic ear, that’s when the burden of who you really are comes through. I imagine you leaning in unsteadily from the perch of your barstool, your hand on your new friend’s shoulder to steady yourself, your mouth an inch away from his ear. I am Joshua Winters, you say, brother of Emily Winters, and the one thing I’ve learned is that you can never fucking escape.

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