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    Small moments based on specific episodes.

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  1. Public Bookmark 88

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    “So it’s been… twelve years?” Patrick asks around the filter. He inhales deeply, and when he finally lifts it from his lips he blows the smoke in a steady stream past Art’s ear. He holds the cigarette out towards Art, an offering.

    Art shakes his head. “Thirteen, actually,” not that he’s counting, “and, no, thanks, I quit,” he says. “Tashi wanted me to.”

    It feels weird to say her name here. Feels a little bit like an invocation, Repeat Tashi Donaldson three times in the mirror while spinning in circles and she’ll appear right behind you.

    “Right,” Patrick muses and takes another drag. “What have you been up to for thirteen years?”

    Art’s eyes roll towards him with an unimpressed slant. “As if you don’t already know that,” he says. His lips press together and he tilts his head at Patrick, daring him to contradict.

    Patrick shrugs one shoulder. “Sure I do,” he says. Knocks the same shoulder into Art’s. He’s close enough to do that. “But I want to hear it from you.”

     

    Or, shared cigarettes, shared lamentations, and shared breath after the Phil's Tire Town Challenger Final.

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    02 Jul 2024

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    He takes a long sip of whiskey before he says a word. When he does, his tone’s deceptively light, chipper, brutally clipped.

    “So, hey,” he says. “What the fuck are you doing here?”

    Patrick stares down into the bottom of his highball glass with a wry twist of the lips.

    “Friend of mine’s getting married,” he says, and makes no effort at all to hide the bitterness. He lets it seep right through everything like red wine on white carpet, like the smell of sex on fresh sheets. “Figured I’d come pay my respects.”

    “That’s for funerals.”

    “I know what I said.”

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    01 Jun 2024

  3. Public Bookmark 48

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    “So,” says Art. “How was dinner?”
    Patrick glares at him over his ice cream. Art grins. “Your wife’s a weird fuckin’ lady,” Patrick mutters, digging into his ice cream and spooning some into his mouth.

     

    After the New Rochelle challenger, relationships shift.

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    30 May 2024

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    'I fucking want him,' Patrick snaps at Tashi. 'That's it, okay? I always have. You two ruined me for anyone else and then you let him put a ring on your finger.'

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    26 May 2024

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    They’re in Delray Beach, Florida in February of 2011 when Patrick talks to Art for the first time in three years.

    “My doubles partner sprained his ankle,” is what he says, standing in the tunnel to the locker rooms, feet bare in slides and hands twisted up in the hem of his t-shirt. “I was hoping you could tap in.”

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    24 May 2024

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