Love and Shame and Love by Peter Orner

Author:Peter Orner [ORNER, PETER]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780316191548
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2011-11-07T06:00:00+00:00

THE BLUFF

He follows Leo out to the bluff. The lake down below rasping in the dark. They never even need to listen to it, because it is always there. The bluff is a scoop of land above the lake, as if God’s mouth took a bite out of the middle of an apple and left the top part, and they sit up there and pluck weeds and kick the scrawny trees that barely hang on to the ground. Erosion will send these trees off the cliff sooner or later. Over the edge are carcasses of newly fallen trees, uptorn roots like festoons of pubic hair. Every year the bluff shrinks more. Two brothers on their backs looking up through the trees at the scrumble of clouds in the purple dark, not listening to the lake.

Leo?

Yeah?

What’s taking her so long?

He wants the house. Think about it, Alex. Mom doesn’t have a dime.

Leo?

Yeah?

It’s late

So?

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