A Scandal of the Particular by Steve Hamilton

Author:Steve Hamilton [Hamilton, Steve]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780228848745
Publisher: Tellwell Talent
Published: 2021-07-14T03:24:11+00:00

It is a dark and cloudless night, and Marianne’s thin gymnast body is well camouflaged in her black turtleneck and Lululemon yoga pants. She has been lost in a melody that pierces the quiet of the night. She needs something to soothe her spirit and help her avoid the overwhelming feelings of self-laceration. Her tongue traces the edges of her lips continuously as her heart beats with the rhythm of obsession. Taking another sip of an already cold coffee, She convinces herself that Kazan will make her happy and content. She likes the feeling of waiting, the anticipation of a climax of emotions. Nothing and nobody can divert her from pulling the razor across her exposed artery. Her desire knows no bounds.

While she was born in Huntsville, a small village that rests in Northern Ontario (if it is known at all, it’s for its proximity to Muskoka), like Briar, she studied at the University of Western Ontario in London. There she had worked and graduated, and if the truth be known, she was one of the few female students who worked nights while completing her degree. It was at Western that she begun to develop her close attachment to Modigliani style artists, single malt scotch, and cigarettes. She was neither bound by cultural norms or sexual stereotypes, and found the deformed bodies splashed about the drum tight canvases fed her colourful world view, and provided her with an escape from the local conventions and expectations of the time. She gazed at those captured in colour portraits and became more and more admiring of the chaos behind their lives. It punctured her veins and caused rivers of adrenalin to flow directly into her heart.

Now in Vancouver, she is still surrounded by young women who drink hard liquor and chain smoke while bathed in their struggling feminist ideals. At night, she traverses Hemmingway’s concise descriptions of love while drinking cold glasses of pinot grigio. She wanders through such issues as self-identification with the ease of a figure skater on a frozen pond. She has to escape her past. She only needs a supportive partner to guide her.

When Peter left her for her younger friend, she made a deal with herself to never surrender to the draw of a causal relationship again. She wanted something more. She did not know what had caused him to be so callous, or what she had done to earn such cruelty. She hated him for being the great escape artist. He had promised her gourmet meals, but had fed her only bread and water to keep their struggling relationship alive. The crumbs had left her hungry for more. She now seeks an equalization for her emotional loss.

Peter had taken all the abuse he could handle, having attempted to deal with her explosive temper. She left broken dishes and hearts everywhere. When he thought about it, Marianne had brought nothing to their relationship, everything had been drawn out of her previous romantic partners and encounters. What amazed him most was the moment of silence that would invade their time together.

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