The Youth & Young Loves Of Oliver Wade: Stories - Plot & Excerpts
Maybe every story about getting dumped is cliché. The same surprise, the same denial, the same obviousness in hindsight. In my case even the name is cliché: Johnny. Who hasn’t been dumped by a Johnny? The end began with me waiting for him in the parking lot of a shopping plaza outside campus. A bookstore. Lots of glass, colorful signage lighting the early dark. It was November, my junior year at UMass; the leaves had turned. I was nervous and it was that exciting kind of nervous, the way you feel about a boyfriend you’ve only been with three weeks. I was sitting on a curb, my bike leaning against a trash barrel beside me, yellow-leaved trees rustling behind me. Shoppers rushed this way and that, and cars crawled by looking to park. I watched through them, my hands clasped between my knees to keep warm. I watched the bookstore’s revolving door. It was a Roulette wheel and my number was Johnny. Before it slung him out I spotted him inside; a flash of familiarity had made me focus beyond the glass.
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