Five weeks from today
"The Sandcastle Girls" arrives only five weeks from today. The following is from Chapter 13.
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Why, she wonders, is she so lonely here – and yet why is she so determined to stay?
She could simply complete the sentence as it is. Drop a small dot after the k in back. She retrieves the pen and dips it into the inkwell, holding the nib perhaps two inches above the paper. In the end, however, she does not add a period. Instead she writes the two words, to me.
She studies the sheer nakedness of the sentence and the meaning in those four brief syllables:
Come back to me.
The words leave her wistful and satisfied at once. When a life is stripped down to tending the starving in the square and the sick in the hospital, why should propriety matter at all? It shouldn’t. Besides: She doubts Armen will ever read a single word she has written tonight.
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Why, she wonders, is she so lonely here – and yet why is she so determined to stay?
She could simply complete the sentence as it is. Drop a small dot after the k in back. She retrieves the pen and dips it into the inkwell, holding the nib perhaps two inches above the paper. In the end, however, she does not add a period. Instead she writes the two words, to me.
She studies the sheer nakedness of the sentence and the meaning in those four brief syllables:
Come back to me.
The words leave her wistful and satisfied at once. When a life is stripped down to tending the starving in the square and the sick in the hospital, why should propriety matter at all? It shouldn’t. Besides: She doubts Armen will ever read a single word she has written tonight.
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Jun 12, 2012 09:26AM
This came up in an Amazon search today. I got all excited rushed to click "download" and then noticed it said, "Pre-order." I hate waiting!
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Melissa, you will NOT be disappointed with the wait. This is Chris writing with his heart and at his best.
