Homo Superiors by L.A. Fields

Author:L.A. Fields [Fields, L.A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General Fiction
Publisher: Lethe Press, Inc.
Published: 2016-07-08T16:00:00+00:00

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NOAH’S SUMMER WORK HAD MOSTLY been as serious as Ray and his audiences believed.

Number one: he never left his education and exploration on the subject birds; he always had one book open, one trip planned, one paper started, or more cataloging to do.

Number two: law isn’t a subject one can just wing; with his decision made to follow Ray to the University of Michigan, Noah pulled up the last decade of course schedules, downloaded their syllabi, and started compiling a list of cornerstone textbooks to read before he even arrived on campus.

Number three: college isn’t just an expensive book club; Noah looked up every professor he’d have access to, searched their accomplishments and standings, and picked those he wanted to ingratiate himself with in the hopes of having them as future references. That would mean taking any class they happened to teach, lurking near them for any opportunities to aid their work, and never correcting some pet opinion they uselessly advocated, no matter how wrong Noah might know them to be. He was willing to make that nearly insufferable sacrifice of his own principles, that’s how much Noah demanded success in his pursuit of a law degree.

But his oddest study, his secret study, was the one he had taken up on the subject of Raymond Klein. He’d found Ray a curiosity since that Halloween when the boy charmed his mother, but Ray’s behavior during this happy, hopeful summer was captivating. First of all, Noah wasn’t so drunk the night of his birthday that he didn’t remember that hooligan habit of Ray’s the next day, how he worked at trying to smash into cars like some slum kid. Moreover, Noah knew the majority of everything Ray said was a lie (not out of disrespect, but out of a distasteful habit) . . . except for his tall tales of crime. They were still fictions—Noah never believed Ray had ever mugged or assaulted anyone (not yet anyway), and besides: whose birding gun had he used to fire a hole through an old jacket so he could tell idiotic people he’d been shot at by thugs? Who could get swept up in a play when they’d helped build the set and seen the rehearsal? No, Noah knew none of that talk was true, but . . .

Noah had seen that Ray could pretend to be enchanting, that’s what made Faye like him so much, that any young man would bother to impress her when she was slumped and frumpy at home. But Ray’s eyes became glassy doll eyes for that act; it wasn’t his true sentiment. However, when Ray told lies about crime, his eyes ignited—that glassy sheen became molten and he stopped using body language to communicate and started gesticulating with his hands. They blossomed into explosions of action, they pointed as guns, they shaped around his face to describe the emotions he never felt, but imagined intensely.

No, the desire Ray had for those particular fantasies was not a lie, and his occasionless ‘gift’ to Faye confirmed it.

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