TriQuarterly, June 22nd, 2002
"I'LL GO FIRST THEN CAPTAIN, THAT'S WHAT YOU WANT, ISN'T IT?"
Rider said yes, though he'd never said he'd wanted him to go first, hadn't even been asked the question and here was Anderson already seizing it from him. Wasn't that the way things always were, someone seizing something then pretending they weren't interested in what they'd just taken. All the more reason not to get too attached to things. That was why the second he saw the ad for the cruise in the newspaper he knew he'd take it, improbable though it was for him of all people to go. He simply saw an image of himself leaving ever...
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