Stories on a Yacht
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Joe feels it even now, how the smell of salt in the air stirs memories. He vaguely recalls the seaside and ships docking at ports as a young boy, how muscled men would carry crates and sacks filled with all the things they'd traded. He thinks he used to swim in rivers where the water ran blue and crystalline, where fish scattered at his feet when he walked by. Something about the water calls him and leaves him with an ache that stings of home.
"Are you all right?" Nicky asks in soft Italian.
Joe turns to him, the sun just missing Nicky's chair. He grins and reaches out to take Nicky's hand, to kiss the back of it.
"I was just remembering you in a pirate hat," he says.
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A story about loss, immortality, and pirates in the 1600s.
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- Part 1 of Stories on a Yacht
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"I have a story," Nile says.
She thinks of her father, of how her memory was the first thing to go, how if it weren't for the pictures she keeps on her phone, she'd forget the shape of her father's eyes. She looks at Nicky and Joe and thinks of all the good things they no longer remember. Then she turns to Andy and imagines being so old that nothing makes sense anymore.
"What is it?" Andy asks, leaning forward on her chair.
Nile sits up at the edge of her seat and lets her hand fall on top of Andy's. She looks down at the gray-blue floor between her feet and thinks of going to New York City for the first time, of the buzzing of a city come to life and the rush of people. She thinks of her father's wide smile and his arm around her shoulders.
"Let me tell you about the Metropolitan Museum of Art," she says.
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- Part 2 of Stories on a Yacht