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2014-07-13
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The Worst Summer Leave

Summary:

Jack has a beer alone on a night he hoped he'd never live to see.

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Jack flicked the aluminum cap into the low remnants of fire, observing the slow curl of sparks where it skidded to a stop; lifted the bottle, drank deep of both alcohol and the echoes of Daniel’s silhouette dematerializing.

Hey… where are you going?

I don’t know.

A half-smile, wonder drawing that familiar course across Daniel’s face… then he was gone, turned to light and pain and a sucking wound in Jack’s chest he was never able to ignore.

Wet sable, staring up into the milky way, voice and brown bottle raising just above the Minnesotan mid-summer night: “Happy birthday, Danny.”