The Lights in the Sky are Stars (Jerry eBooks) by Fredric Brown

Author:Fredric Brown [Brown, Fredric]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Jerry eBooks
Published: 2018-01-14T05:00:00+00:00

The second week she felt much better, much less tired. We went out more that week, saw the town. Neither of us cared for dancing but we both liked good modern Cuban music, the quartertone stuff that America had imported in the seventies and discarded in the eighties but that was still going strong in Havana. We liked Cuban dancing, too; I guess we were both old-fashioned.

We took a couple of boat trips on the sunniest days, renting skitterbugs, those little skimmers that are so fast you have to wear bathing suits because of the spray. Out of sight of shore we’d stop and let it rock in the waves while we took off our suits and sunbathed on the flat part of the deck. There aren’t any nudist beaches in Cuba; people of Spanish descent are for some reason awfully prissy about nudity, like Americans used to be.

It was a good vacation and we both felt fine, all rested up, when it ended, as it had to end. Ellen back to Washington, I back to the L.A. Rocket Port.

And to a plenty busy week. Klocky’s last week before his vacation leave, one week to show me the various things I still didn’t know about taking over his job while he was gone. We worked late every evening as he’d remember one thing after another that I should learn about.

It’s a big job, I was learning, running the Los Angeles Rocket Port, plenty of responsibility and a hell of a lot to know about every department under you. Until Klocky got back I was going to be up to my ears in work.

He left for Africa on the first of April. I saw him off in a gray dawn. “Keep in touch with me, Max, so I’ll know when the appointment is set and it’s okay for me to come back. But not sooner than three months, damn it. I want at least that much time off. And—good luck.”

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