Dryland by Sara Jaffe

Author:Sara Jaffe [Jaffe, Sara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tin House Books
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

THE WISPY BOY disappeared from Lane Five. It was as if the current had taken him. I kicked. I stroked. I tried to keep my elbow lifted. I tested and sorted the reeds of myself, and I could feel something happening. My body knew what it was doing. I stuffed a pull-buoy between my thighs and my arms were golden. Water moved for me. I went arm to pit to hip to toe and I let my mind catch on moments: Alexis calling me over. Alexis pulling at my cuff. My memory rubbed the moments raw.

In the middle of the 200 Back I bumped into the striver and she told me I’d swim straighter if I followed the lines on the ceiling. I said, I know that.

At the end of the length I rested my elbows on the wall’s metal lip. Donna swam up and stared at me. She said, What’s up with you?

I said, What do you mean?

She said, Not to be rude, but why do you stop after every lap?

I said, I’m just resting. I said, It’s not every lap. I get leg cramps. You can ask Coach.

Donna said, No offense, but if you don’t want to be here, you shouldn’t be.

She looked as if she might punch me. Not at that moment, but later, when she wasn’t in her bathing suit, and when there weren’t swimmers around to witness it.

I said, It’s fine.

She said, Not really.

I said, It’s fine.

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