She was at the moving center of the universe, an ethereal gravity well. People pulled in close and pushed in closer and he allowed the crowd’s currents to carry him to the edge of her horizon. He didn’t want their reunion to occur in the middle of the rabble. He wanted to see her again alone, so ...
It’s the kind of emptiness where it is difficult to estimate distance and dimension. Carlsbad was another kind of empty I hadn’t yet seen. It had been a city once. Here, the Pecos River looked like another dry dusty road. The shapes of the city were mostly skeletons of buildings now. A large plan...