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The Bureau of Dreams to be Continued
Page 437
“You guys were kind of ..... lucky, huh?” Mason said, not sure why he said it out loud.
Kurt shrugged. “Luck’s just talent that got noticed before it could self-destruct.”
Krist snorted. “Or maybe it’s just being the loudest weirdos in the right zip code.”
Dave grinned. “We were good at being noisy. And we had great hair.”
Mason blinked. “So you weren’t ..... geniuses?”
Kurt leaned in, eyes tired but sharp. “We were a garage band that got dragged into a stadium. That’s not genius. That’s gravity.”
They talked for a while; about distortion pedals, about how fame felt like being trapped in a vending machine, about how the best songs were the ones you didn’t overthink. Mason asked if they ever felt like frauds. Krist laughed. “Every day. That’s how you know you’re doing it right.”
Eventually, the pier began to dissolve into fog. The gulls turned into cassette tapes and flew away. Mason felt himself waking up.