One Brother Shy by Terry Fallis

Author:Terry Fallis
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Published: 2017-05-30T04:00:00+00:00

He hit Send.

When we got home that night we snagged a couple of beers and took them out on the deck.

“Feel like an Indian tonight?” Matt asked.

What?

“Well, um, no, I think I feel like my usual Canadian self,” I replied. “I’m not sure what it means to ‘feel like an Indian.’ ”

“No. It’s a Britishism that simply means do you want to order Indian take-away for dinner,” he explained. “You know, to eat.”

“Ah. Got it,” I said. “Then, yes, I guess I do feel like an Indian, though I’m not crazy about that line.”

Matt was already dialing his iPhone. He placed the order and then checked his email. He discovered he’d already received five responses to his company-wide electronic plea for tattoo help.

The first four were inconsequential and offered no new insights. Matt thought they were well-intentioned staff who simply wanted to register that they had received, reviewed, and thought about his email, even if they couldn’t really shed any new light on the tattoo. But the fifth email, from Oksana Lysenko, a Ukrainian immigrant – I remembered her accent – and one of the coders I’d met on my first day in the office, was different. It was quite different.

Hi Matt,

I agree with Alex. I think this is a hockey tattoo. The partial word makes no sense in English, but in Russian, it’s quite a different story. I think the whole word in Cyrillic might be Канада. In English, the word is “Canada.” I suspect the red shape at the top is probably part of either the Canadian or old Soviet flag, not sure which. If it’s the Soviet flag, it dates the tattoo to before the breakup of the Soviet Union, so pre-1991. I wish I could tell you more about it. But I play hockey Tuesday nights and my coach is Russian. He actually works with the IHUK national women’s team. He’s quiet, but nice. Do you want me to see if he will talk to you?

Oks

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