Twin Cities Noir by Julie Schaper & Steven Horwitz

Author:Julie Schaper & Steven Horwitz [Schaper, Julie & Horwitz, Steven]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Anthologies (Multiple Authors), City Life, Fiction, Literary, Mystery & Detective, Noir, Travel
ISBN: 9781617751615
Google: ujLjqUOmQ-0C
Amazon: 1617751618
Publisher: Akashic Books
Published: 2013-08-06T00:00:00+00:00

Neil,

You probably think I’m crazy for throwing this over your fence, but it’s a lot safer with you than with Hank. He didn’t have a license for this stupid thing, so either turn it in to the police or bury it. I already took the bullets out. Becky

Under her signature, she had written, Thank you. Those two words leapt out at him—she had written them with such urgency that she had nearly pressed the pen through the paper. Thank you. What was she thanking him for—that sack of vegetables he had left on her doorstep? Then it sank in; Becky had left the guy. That fragile young woman with the matchstick arms had taken off.

On a mild September afternoon, Neil sat on the back porch and listened to the children next door squeal as they jumped into piles of raked leaves. A Hmong family had moved in after Hank left. The other day, a postcard from Becky arrived. She said she was waitressing in Madison and saving to go back to college. She got away, he kept thinking. She had to go and she went. But he had decided to stay. He had told Gina that he was too settled to pull up roots anymore. “I guess I’m going to grow old here, right in this neighborhood.”

The garden rustled and whispered to him like an old friend. Looking at his birch tree, he thought of roots sinking into the earth, then watched its golden leaves reach into the intense blue of the autumn sky. The colors sang inside him as he began to play his flute.

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