Fly Me by Daniel Riley

Author:Daniel Riley
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2017-06-06T04:00:00+00:00

August is almost gone when she makes a third run, a run that’s weirdly smooth, devoid of the heat. Takeoff and land and swap and takeoff and land. And suddenly she has cash enough not just to move out, but to pay a whole year’s rent if she so desires, with plenty left over for lessons and concerts and beer and pretty much anything else she wants. She keeps the money in an envelope shoved down the leg of a pair of maroon hose she’ll never wear in warm weather. Balled up in the back of her clothing drawer in Mike’s office, looking as though they conceal a severed foot.

Suzy sees an apartment on Twenty-Ninth Street, ten blocks from Mike and Grace, up the hill, in the shadow of the oil refinery. It’s even closer to the airport, in and out with ease, off in a notch of Sela that wedges itself between the beach and the refinery and the butterfly sanctuaries beneath the flight path. It’s a small apartment, but an apartment with a view. There’s a wooden staircase that’s twice as tall as would seem permitted, rickety like an Escher, that leads to the top apartment, a bedroom and bathroom, living room and kitchen, with a long look out over the water, about as high as the hill at Nineteenth, the same view she got on the Fourth before bombing the descent on her skateboard. The thickness of the stroke of neon blue on the horizon is the same weight, and the peninsulas, both visible from this height, are still bookends on the bay. There’s sand in the carpet when she drags a flip-flop from one room into another, but it will never not be there, the agent says. Two hundred bucks a month. More than Grace would ever let her spend. But given the new reality it’s more than affordable. She gives the woman cash and they agree to sign something later. Suzy moves in the next day. And that first night, when the sun goes down, it’s rose gold through the big window without drapes, the sky and the water reflecting each other, blurring their opposition.

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