Smokey O by Celia Cohen

Author:Celia Cohen [Cohen, Celia]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, General, Romance, Mystery & Detective
ISBN: 9781594931987
Google: 1YdqzgAACAAJ
Amazon: 1594931984
Publisher: Bella Books
Published: 2010-08-16T00:00:00+00:00

I was very drunk. Everything I saw was encircled by an out-of-focus, rose-colored halo, and in the center of it I was seeing Mac. She looked hard at me, and, I think, as Shakespeare’s recitation went on, that Mac dipped the rim of her wine glass at me very slightly; but I was drunk and couldn’t tell for sure.

For he, today, that sheds his blood with me, Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition: And gentlemen in safe homes now abed, Shall think themselves accurs’d that were not here; And hold their manhoods cheap, while any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s Day.

It was a moment you wanted to go on forever, being with people you cared about, and knowing they cared about you, and knowing this moment would be the one you wanted to come back to you to cherish on the day you died. And did Mac dip her glass at me or not?

Somehow we got our check and settled our bill. I’m not sure how much it was, but S.B. kept telling me to take more money out of my wallet. I was beyond being able to figure it out for myself.

The rain had stopped. We called for taxis. I found myself crunched in a back seat with S.B. on my left and Mac on my right and started yelping.

“S.B.! That’s my throwing hand you’re squishing!”

“Nobody cares about your throwing hand. You play first base. Just worry about your glove hand.”

“Oh.”

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