Wayward by Dana Spiotta

Author:Dana Spiotta [Spiotta, Dana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2021-07-06T00:00:00+00:00

7

He was due at noon. A nooner on a hot August day. Especially hot for two bodies in her narrow bed. She refused to get an air conditioner. (Not in that beautiful casement window. Also climate change/global extinction. Oh that, he’d said. Another letterpress, elegant flyer card had been tucked into her door frame. wake up: nte. And this time she had realized what the letters stood for: Near-Term Extinction.)

This would be the fourth time they’d done this. It was becoming a regular thing they did. The first time he came over on his lunch hour on some pretext of signing a paper or bringing her mail. Okay, maybe it wasn’t a pretext, he clearly didn’t plan or hope for anything. But she could tell by his face that he had wanted to see her. To look at her in person. That particular expression, the one in which he didn’t smile and his eyes were open and steady and trained on her, in which he actually saw her, not some replicated, familiar “Sam” he had seen already, that expression gave her an erotic charge. And reminded her of their intensity when they first met in the ’90s.

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