Lingering by Melissa Simonson

Author:Melissa Simonson [Simonson, Melissa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-03-30T16:00:00+00:00

I went home feeling oddly depressed and elated, like the Cloud Nine I rode on turned out to be bursting at the seams with a load of rain.

The snap of the side door shutting behind me was like a knife slitting that cloud open, letting loose a torrential downpour, and I suddenly knew why she’d impossibly remembered Martha’s Vineyard.

Carissa, reigning queen of gift giving, had always agonized over presents for me, determined each one outdo the last. Last Valentine’s Day, she’d given me a lumpy package covered in brown craft paper which was tied together with a length of twine. I’d been confused at first, too used to her usual neatly-wrapped gifts with perfectly folded paper and fat bows. A stack of envelopes had been inside, some bulging, some flat, some stiff and unyielding. They all bore the words open when in Carissa’s spiky handwriting. Open when you’re sad. Open when you need a pick me up. Open when we’re apart. Open when you’re mad at me.

The open when you’re feeling nostalgic card had only a URL. I’d typed the link into a browser and found a blog she’d secretly started for me. She hadn’t used our names, hadn’t included pictures of us. Nothing that could be used to identify either herself or me. There were hundreds of posts, which made me sure she’d been working on the project for a while, and one of those posts had been titled Martha’s Vineyard.

Ignoring Dexter’s meow of greeting, I headed for the home office, fell into my swivel chair, and rooted around in my drawers for the envelopes.

I spread them out on the desk and found the right one, typed the link into Chrome, and pulled up the blog.

There it was. Martha’s Vineyard.

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