“I went by the hair,” Dove continued, “but it wasn’t Jackie Earle I'd met, just his stand-in. Sparrows said the guy had this ‘thing’ for birds. Can’t perform without us. I wanted to go home and take all my diet pills. But right that second, I saw Kate Winslet –”
“Kate, or her stand-in?” Swan interrupted, surprisingly sharply.
“In a newspaper. Blowing by. Geez! Saying she accepts her body. Herself. I realized: this is a koan.”
“A –”
“A teaching, Flamingo says. Ever since, I’ve been clean.”
“I trusted you. You lied,” Swan hissed. “And my kind mates for life.”
The sequel to this story is Sure.
“Kate, or her stand-in?” Swan interrupted, surprisingly sharply.
“In a newspaper. Blowing by. Geez! Saying she accepts her body. Herself. I realized: this is a koan.”
“A –”
“A teaching, Flamingo says. Ever since, I’ve been clean.”
“I trusted you. You lied,” Swan hissed. “And my kind mates for life.”
The sequel to this story is Sure.
Poor Dove. I'm digging swan, though.
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