The Cranberry Hush by Ben Monopoli

Author:Ben Monopoli
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: GLBT Fiction/Literature, Kindle Ready
Published: 2011-03-06T06:00:00+00:00

We walked in on a movie fifteen minutes late at the Copley Mall cinemas. They showed art films ever since the new multiplex opened beside the Common my junior year. I’d always preferred the run-down Copley cinemas, with its shoebox-size theaters, over the glossy state-of-the-art multiplex.

We sat for two hours reading subtitles, enjoying the warmth like the homeless men who buy tickets in the morning and then sneak from movie to movie, avoiding for the whole day the snow or rain outside. We sat three in a row, Griff, me, Zane, all of our boots off, our feet hanging over the backs of the chairs in front of us. We sat through the closing credits, and when the lights came up we put on our boots and walked squinty-eyed out of the theater.

We left the mall and crossed Copley Square in front of the library, walked down the steps into the T station, were greeted with a blast of warm air. We bought tokens and pushed through turnstiles. A student with shaggy brown hair sat on the floor with his back against a huge subway map, strumming a guitar. Zane dropped a dollar into his guitar case. The musician nodded a thank-you.

“Supporting the arts?” Griff said.

“Supporting sexy artists,” Zane said, shrugging his shoulders.

“Yeah he’s not bad looking,” said Griff.

The three of us stood at the edge of the platform, staring down at the third rail. A Starbucks cup rolled back and forth along the track, but when it touched the third rail it did not burst into flames, as I had expected and hoped. Finally a train rumbled to a stop. We took it to the Fenway.

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