In an Undisclosed Location
(a sample)
My companion and I were, just then, at that moment, in an awkward situation; to be truthful, I didn’t consider it awkward, but I feared that she might. There we were, in a place where we could hear—where we could scarcely avoid hearing—the conversation of a man who was stuck somewhere in the middle of life and a woman who was stuck with him. I leaned across the table and in the lowest possible voice asked my companion, “What do politeness and civility require of us now? If our overhearing this conversation is making you uncomfortable, we could leave the lounge, or move to a more distant table.”
“Chance,” she whispered, “has put us in this place at this time. What the great god Chance offers us we are permitted to accept.”
I nodded in appreciation of her wisdom, and was about compliment her on it, but, just then, the man, invisible to us, said, “If we could go away, go someplace where we could isolate ourselves for a while, I think I could work things out.” He paused. Then he said, “I know a place.”
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54 pages
7.5 x 7.5 x .15 inches
Full Color Throughout
First published by the Babbington Press in 2008 in an edition limited to fewer than one hundred printed copies.
