Genevieve; Spring Rushes Forth by Edward Drobinski - HTML preview

Chapter 24

“It’s going to go higher than this? Uh oh,” said Teddy.

Teddy; the kind courtesy of Pexels,com under their CC0 license.

Dessie Dog said; “What is going on here?” Cherry Squirrel replied; “The usual. Look. They’ve turned on the lights. No worries. And the show will be back again tomorrow.”

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Dessie and Cherry; property of the author.

Night time whumped over the area.

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Clement thought he saw her in the fading natural light. The day’s illumination was now supplemented and complemented through the artificial pastel blues and reds provided by color producing

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electricity. She seemed a bit grayer than he recalled, but not all that much; and it could well have been a function of the light or his dimming eyes anyway.

Linda; property of the author.

And she used to wear funny hats, but this dog had none. She was walking alone, in the direction of the open gate which led to the main road most called Poochville. He thought; “It couldn’t be. ......... Yes, it could!” Exhibiting more bravery than he could work up as a pup, he called out; “Linda?”

She turned, paused a second, and with her head to one side, she said; “Clement?”

With his one word having apparently not been exhausted Clement said; “Linda.”

Linda said; “Clement.”

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Clement said; “It’s been so long.”

Linda said; “I used to see you every day in reg.”

Clement said; “And I you. They put us on opposite sides of the room, but I’d always see you standing by your desk.”

Linda said; “I wanted you to take notice.”

Clement drew a verbal blank, possibly caused by all of his streaming thoughts and ideas and memories and regrets and visions and still-existing-potentials of what if’s and what not’s and what-might-have-been’s and with all that running concurrently through his mind, intersecting at the confluence of varying three dimensional sets of possible mutual equation solving overlapping points displayed as an irregularly shaped form, itself an equivocation to those restricted to two dimensions, that mathematical array also only so far subjected to the most primary of arithmetic functions, and feeling under some pressure to hold up his end of the conversation, he said;

“I did.”

Linda didn’t know whether or not to laugh, question, or play stupid; though it seemed to be her natural inclination to laugh; while synchronously recognizing that a quaking guffaw could be taken as either total acceptance or might also be taken as a derision; the latter a risk she wished to avoid taking; and that a serious response could well be seen as either indicative of the lack of a sense of humor, her being a dullard, or one

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otherwise inclined toward the safety of monotony; and a feeble giggle just had to be considered innocuous and ineffectually tepid by both parties, she able to 100% vouch for one. Linda again wondered why these futile and ineffectual intellectualizations had a nasty habit of making their debilitating presences known whenever one considered the discourse to be of importance. That aspect of the system needed some re-working; but in the meantime here it was again. By this time she had forgotten what it was which had or had not prompted this reverie; and feeling compelled to hold up her end said;

“So?” as whatever anybody says first, that is a suitable retort.

Clement; property of the author.

Clement said; “So, so, so, so, what have you been doing for a thousand years? Where have you been? Why did you go there? Was it ..... “

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Linda interrupted and said; “Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Maybe we could take one question and ten years at a time.”

Still overly sensitive Clement was crestfallen until Linda added; “If we don’t rush, it will take longer, and I’d prefer it that way.”

Excitedly, Clement said; “Yes! We have a lot of catching up to do and lots of time to do it in. ........ Ummm. Right now I have a house full of kittens.”

Linda “fell” into Clement who caught her before she hit the ground. She said; “My room-mate just had eight puppies, and they just get into everything.”

They laughed as the big wheel kept turning.

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Linda and Clement walked together. They had no idea of where they were going. They kept clumsily bumping into each other, and both seemed happy to “have to” support the other.

The End

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