The woman did not step away. Or laugh. She rested one hand on Tate’s chest, right over Tate’s racing heart.
“I’ll answer one question,” she said. “About anything. I’ll tell you one true thing. And if I win—it’s that corner, right?—I want you to take me someplace.”
“Where?”
“Someplace special. You’ve been playing pool here since you were twenty-one. You must know someplace no one goes. Someplace I wouldn’t see otherwise. Something I’ll remember.”
“Okay.”
They played in silence, standing closer than necessary, touching more than necessary. The woman seemed to relax, and her game got better. Tate won the first game but only just barely. The woman won the second, masterfully compensating for the uneven table. Tate was in line to win the third game but scratched on the eight ball. The woman laughed a sweet, musical laugh tinged with victory.
“Take me somewhere,” the woman said.
At the bar, Vita pointed and mouthed, You rock. At a table near the door, Abigail leaned against Duke’s leather vest and scowled. But Tate did not see them. She slipped her hand through the woman’s arm and stepped out into the moonlight.
About the Author
Karelia Stetz-Waters is an English professor by day and a writer by night (and early morning). She has a BA from Smith College in comparative literature and an MA in English from the University of Oregon. Other formative experiences include a childhood spent roaming the Oregon woods and several years spent exploring Portland as a broke twentysomething, which is the only way to experience Oregon’s strangest, most beautiful city.
Her other works include The Admirer, The Purveyor, and Forgive Me if I’ve Told You This Before. She lives with her wife, Fay, her dog, Willa Cather, and her cat, Cyrus the Disemboweler.
Karelia loves to hear from readers. You can find her at KareliaStetzWaters.com.
Also by Karelia Stetz-Waters
Something True
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Table of Contents
Cover
Title Page
Welcome
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Part One 1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
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Part Two: Five Years Later 1
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Epilogue
An Excerpt from SOMETHING TRUE
About the Author
Also by Karelia Stetz-Waters
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Copyright
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