Jack And The Beanstalk (Matthew Hope) - Plot & Excerpts
Their glow only seemed to add to the suffocatingly moist heat of the August night. The Ca D’Ped was Calusa’s art museum, a vast hacienda back when Florida was still a Spanish possession, renovated and refurbished in 1927 when its original name—Casa Don Pedro—was abbreviated to its present form. Calusa natives called it “The Ped.” My partner Frank called it “The Carport.”The party on that eighth night of August was a formal affair in honor of Calusa’s resident artists. “Formal” in Calusa, at least during the summer months, meant white dinner jackets and black ties for the men, and long gowns for the women. Frank’s wife was wearing a slinky black creation slit to her waist, the better to expose what Frank proudly called “the family jewels.” Like a juggler defying an expectant crowd, Leona kept daring one or the other of her precocious treasures to spill from the front of the gown, seemingly unaware of how dangerously close they were to indecent exposure.Frank was holding forth on his favorite topic.
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