She paused, as though waking from a dream. Roger didn’t say anything. Another dragonfly whizzed past the slats.
Trembling, she said: “Tell me all of that’s insane ... Please?”
He stared at her, thinking about what she’d said. Yeah, it sounded crazy. But what was crazy, anymore?
He put his arm around her and squeezed, thinking of the Harper verdict and the riots—and how everybody had exploited both. The truck’s motor chugged along and its tires droned over the pavement, already being covered over by moss and fern.
He told her he loved her instead.
IN THE FORESTS OF THE NIGHT (2021)
It would be heedless to say that what I saw in front of me as the moths fluttered about the dock light and the moon shone blue through the trees was the most amazing thing I’d ever seen; of course it was. H
