Edge Case by YZ Chin

Author:YZ Chin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ecco
Published: 2021-06-11T00:00:00+00:00

After

Day Five (Sunday)

The train ventured north, the Hudson River stretching out alongside and winking under bright sunshine. I peered out the window, charmed. I couldn’t remember: Had I seen the horizon lately?

The river’s sparkling dips and crests, the clouds trailing wisps of themselves, these must be regular, yawn-inducing sameness for Marlin by now. Before he became someone who used a necklace as a telephone to the spirit world, he would go on weekends to the Shawangunk Ridge with Eamon and others to climb. The Gunks, they called it. How many times had Marlin looked out the train window at this view? I never went with them because I was self-conscious about the way I’d look, strapped tight into a harness.

I spoke politely and formally to the uniformed conductor. When the train passed a castle in the middle of the river, I ate a smoked salmon sandwich, gnawing away at the rubbery, oily flesh. And when a young couple wearing matching outfits asked if I would trade seats so they could sit together, I said, “No,” surprising myself.

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