/lit/ - Literature

>Ted's brief sojourn in Raynesford was also notable for a crude romantic overture he made to a 19-year-old college student who was working as a waitress in the truck-stop restaurant […] To the waitress, Sandra Hill, he was just a shy, clean-shaven co-worker, a dozen years her senior. She said she had paid him little attention, and had no idea he was interested in her until she went back to school that fall and received three letters from him. One invited her to move with him to northern Canada and be his squaw."

So there's these three dilapidated blondes, all around the age of fourty six, and they're all sitting at the faux-wood bar talking in voices whose tone and volume suggest they want to be heard by everyone but the two women beside them who, in their minds, are the two ugly stepsisters to her own dazzling Cinderalla. What none of them know, and will never know, even when the paramedics arrive with the foldable stretcher, is that Toby Vetberg Senior, son of acclaimed postmodern author Ding Vetberg, is out back trying to hold down three bottles of Xanax.


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