Puck Around And Fall
The boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
He finished and was quiet for a moment.
"That's the whole thing, isn't it," he said. Not a question.
"Yeah," I said. "That's the whole thing."
He closed the book. Set it flat on the table between us. Outside, the last of the afternoon light was going orange through the twinkly-light windows of The Frosty Mug, and Lila had put something quiet on the speakers, old and acoustic, the same kind of thing Knox played in his truck at low volume on the drive to the lake.