How Beautiful the Ordinary by Michael Cart

Author:Michael Cart [Cart, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Juvenile Fiction, Short Stories, Social Issues, Homosexuality, General
ISBN: 9780061154980
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Amazon: 0061154989
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Publisher: HarperTeen
Published: 2008-12-29T05:00:00+00:00

Till next year, always,

your YaYa

THE SILK ROAD RUNS THROUGH TUPPERNECK, N.H.

BY GREGORY MAGUIRE

“Come here,” he says.

But I don’t. He is—everything—everything I want in an impossible way. The skin and silk of him, the tension of his bare foot on the sustain pedal, the shimmer of pale blazing afternoon sun in the stray hairs at the nape of his neck, the whole heat and heft of him in the third-floor rehearsal cubicle with its ancient A/C unit laboring, laboring. Shivering with effort and not cooling anything down.

The fly-gobbed window shakes in its frame, I in my ribs.

But it’s not only the obvious consolation that I want. It’s that other thing too. The secret of him.

“I can’t hear you from over there, Roukh; the racket. This useless contraption roars like a turbine.” He leans into a minor diminished chord, then strums it as a triad. “Faroukh, we got a song to finish. What are you waiting for?”

I am waiting for what I can’t have. I am waiting for my voice to settle. In the next room, Abby Desroches and her partner are in the thick of their assignment. The walls are meant to be soundproof, but the toast-colored insulation panels are falling off, and besides, Abby and her lyricist have their door open because of the punishing heat.

I closed the door behind me when I came in.

“Shoot, Faroukh, we got forty minutes before they lock the gate to the pool house. What’s the matter with you? Get over here.”

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