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Re: wanna write a story?

Posted by lissa on July 20, 2001, at 22:44:50

In reply to Re: wanna write a story?, posted by Glenn Fagelson on July 20, 2001, at 20:46:39


>
> Strong fatigue set in, as Julio drove back
> home; it was 5 o'clock in the morning and
> he had once again lost all his money in an
> all-night poker game.

Julio, Latin lover, cowboy, nuclear physicist, and alchemist of all things pleasurable and despairing, sped along the flat desert highway in the '88 eldorado he'd hotwired behind the casino in Tucsan. The contents of the elusive envelope had been passed on like chips in a high-profile poker game (along with Trickster, his pinto horse). As entered the outskirts of Los Alamos and saw the nauseating flashing red lights of the hall which had sanctified their marriage, his thoughts turned to those moments before Dolores had handed over the envelope. As they were finishing up dinner, Dolores' interest in his stories about his research endeavors had waned. She looked absently at the palms outside the window, blowing wildly in the strong wind.

"You did get the …,"

"Yes."

"Any trouble with security?"

"Johannas escorted me," she replied.

She continued eating, or at least pretending to do so. From across the long table, he could see there was nothing left on her plate. She appeared disgusted by the entire matter; disgusted by Julio himself as well -- his carelessness, his obstinance, his bravado, and his seeming assumption that his success at work made him an unquestionably savory character. He glanced at her dark coutenance and she looked up to his dull gray eyes with a brief, colorless expression suggesting he might well be gone for her. Julio felt the bows of remorse and heartache screeching slowly, resonating, pulling violently on his inner strings -- those strings binding modesty with arrogance, love with betrayal, and honesty with espionage -- those strings which were starting to give out.


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