Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge by Peter Orner

Author:Peter Orner
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction / Short Stories (Single Author)
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2013-08-05T16:00:00+00:00

PART III

In Moscow

Everything Will

Be Different

The time I said it was only an emotional affair and you took your clothes off in front of a train. Not in front of the train as in front of the engine, in front of the side of the train. It was after eight o’clock in midsummer. The shadow of the water tower hovered over the town like an enormous bulbous spider. OTTUMWA. Amtrak was three hours late from Chicago. Freight causing delays. You waited until the train began to arrive to let me know what you thought of such idiot phrases as emotional affair. You want some fucking emotion? Always you see a train before you hear it. At first, it is only that burning headlight charging forward out of the wet haze. You didn’t say anything. No unbuttoning or unzipping. Only that sudden pulling apart of your shirt and wiggling your jeans shorts off easy. Those weary passengers got a good look at you. One woman, I remember, nodded her head again and again. The body I knew so well and loved but had never seen before in public or in this vinegar light.

OTTUMWA, IOWA, 2001

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