Imagining Reality by Lynn Galli

Author:Lynn Galli
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781935611349
Publisher: Outskirts Press
Published: 2007-07-27T04:00:00+00:00

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“How did you two meet?” Briony asked our table companions.

Quinn flicked a quick glance at Willa before answering. “I was walking my dogs and one of them attacked her. Well, as much as a harmless Corgi can attack, anyway.”

“Great first meet story,” Briony affirmed. “Short, funny, and appropriate to tell anywhere. My friends aren’t as lucky.

I’m always torn between keeping my mouth shut or telling them that they might want to G-rate their stories for others.”

They laughed with me as I slipped an arm around Briony’s shoulders. Dating her made me feel like I’d grown significantly. Not only did she have substance, but we’d yet to 138 Lynn Galli progress to a physical relationship which is about all I’d had since denouncing intimacy ten years ago. The dinner with Willa and Quinn tonight was also something new in my dating life. So far, Briony had fit right in, chatting easily with them, keeping the topics light but substantial, nothing too personal until the last question.

“And you two?” Despite knowing the answer, Willa grasped for anything to shift the topic away from her personal life.

Briony leaned against me and it felt so familiar. “I watched Jess basically hypnotize a club member. He’d been misusing the machines for the better part of an hour before Jess walked in and within thirty seconds had him ready to follow her off a bridge. I knew I had to meet her.”

“Were tasers involved?” Willa joked.

“Mild hallucinogens,” I kidded back.

“On Briony, too, obviously,” Quinn chimed in.

“I see how you all are.” Briony faced me with a smile. “I hope I can keep up. How long have you known Jess?”

“We met in college my last year, but we didn’t really know each other until I moved back,” Quinn answered. “Will wandered into the bookstore and met Sam and Caroline who introduced her to our other friends including Jessie.”

“How fortunate.”

“What about you? Jessie tells us you’re from Vermont?

And you have a son?”

“Yes, Caleb. He’s eight, the light of my life. He’s got his teacher wrapped around his finger, something he learned from his other mom.” She went from sunshine to maudlin in the space of a sentence. This had been happening a little too often on our last few dates. “She could sell Bill Gates an Apple computer.”

“Caleb must be a blessing to have.” Willa exchanged an uncomfortable look with her partner.

“He is, thanks. He misses his friends and his grandparents who lived down the street from us in Vermont. Other than that, he seems to like it here. I think it was a good move.”

“I’m sure it was,” I confirmed. “For me especially.”

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She turned an awed look my way. “And me as well.”

Quinn raised her eyebrows at me just as the waiter arrived with the check. “I’m so glad we could do this,” Quinn said.

“It’s been a pleasure getting to know you better, Briony.”

“It’s been great,” she agreed as we gathered our coats.

After exchanging goodbyes with a promise to get together again soon, Briony and I got into my car to head back to her place.

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