Shadow Show: All-New Stories In Celebration Of Ray Bradbury - Plot & Excerpts
They swooped, circled, and spun so wildly that they all but set themselves free from gravity. As they perched momentarily at the top of the Ferris wheel, MacGregor kissed both of Silvie’s flushed cheeks, then her lips. Beyond her pretty bare shoulder he saw the whole world stretching out, full of possibility. Then the huge contraption heaved them toward the earth, and MacGregor, caught up in the excitement of falling, shouted, “Marry me!” He didn’t even consider that they’d only been dating a few months or that he had no ring to offer her. Apparently Silvie didn’t think of these things either, because at the bottom, she said yes. The embrace that ensued on the way back up nearly knocked off MacGregor’s glasses. As they reached the top again, MacGregor glimpsed his home to the east, a quarter mile from the fairgrounds, the house he’d just inherited from his parents, may they rest in peace. He held Silvie close and pointed out the visible bit of gray-green roof not shaded by the big sycamore tree; they couldn’t see the white clapboards or the dark-green trim, but recognizing that familiar place just now, just after the woman he loved had agreed to be his wife, brought tears to his eyes.
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