Category: Part 1: Day One
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Friday, September 21, 2018 Heading out his front door, James wears a snug lime-green T-shirt with the words Similes Are Like Metaphors emblazoned on the front. Lucinda had backed herself out of his garage and his life only 15 minutes before. The shirt is a good luck charm for James, something he could use today.…
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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards. (Soren Kierkegaard) James is standing on the threshold of his living room, looking down into his dark garage. Morning light floods in from the windows across the room behind him, silhouetting his figure. “Bye, Jemmy,” Lucinda says, standing between her white SUV and…
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James and Lucinda sit together in a booth in the cozy part of a subterranean food hall polished in brass and marble, located underneath a large bank tower in downtown Austin near James’ office and down the street from the domed, granite state capitol building. The smell of fresh-baked pretzels, ramen, chicken wings, fancy cheese,…
King James (a novel in progress) 