Before We Sleep by Jeffrey Lent

Author:Jeffrey Lent
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781620405017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2017-02-16T16:00:00+00:00

Ruth drove. Partway home Oliver spoke. The windows were down, the night warm. Still the passing trails of curing hay. There remained an improbable smear of light in the western sky. He lit a cigarette and, wordless, passed it to her and she took it, thankful. He lit another and dragged deep and watched the smoke skim out into the deep dusk. Then he said, “Please? Don’t ask me to do that again.”

She nodded, a gesture she thought might be invisible to him. So she said, “I won’t.”

She drove on, silent. A round of questions circled her mind. He smoked and watched the falling dark beyond his open window, his face turned from her. The questions rattled her mind and she drove as they sifted down and finally she settled on one. Very simple but seemed most essential this night. She said, “I thought you liked bread pudding.”

He said, “You know I do.”

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