Rogue Island by Bruce DeSilva

Author:Bruce DeSilva
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates
Published: 2011-10-14T01:13:16+00:00

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That evening, she cooked for me.

She arrived toting three grocery bags, prepared to whip up something elaborate, then discovered that my cookware consisted of a single scarred saucepan. Undeterred, she used it to boil penne and tossed it with olive oil on my ancient stove while grilling bell peppers, eggplant, zucchini, and mushrooms on a sheet of aluminum foil in the crusty oven.

“So that’s what that thing is for,” I said when she turned on the gas.

When dinner was ready, my place smelled better than it ever had. We sprawled on my bed in front of another Law & Order rerun, sharing Russian River straight from the bottle and eating off paper plates with plastic forks. Dorcas had all our dishes and silverware, but I didn’t care. I hated doing dishes.

Later, I tossed the plates and forks in the trash, and we settled back into bed, I with the new Robert Parker novel swiped from the desk of the paper’s book critic, she with a slim paperback by Patricia Smith, some lame poet she’d just discovered. The domesticity was both comfy and unsettling.

I was on chapter two when Veronica started reciting poems out loud, liking the way the words felt in her mouth. Reading poetry to me now? Poetry? Things were getting out of hand. I tried to block it out, concentrating hard now on whether the suspicious husband thought Spenser was the right man for a tail job. Veronica reached over, pulled the novel from my hands, and snapped it shut.

“You’ve got to hear this.”

“I’m not into poetry, Veronica. It does nothing for me, unless Bob Dylan’s whining it through his nose.”

“Just shut up and listen.”

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