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Date Posted: 08:17:45 08/01/09 Sat
Author: Lil
Subject: Mermaid in a Bowl of Tears, Chapter 10

Mermaid in a Bowl of Tears



Casey wakes from sleep disoriented and confused. His mind begins to clear and he remembers he's with Pamela in a cottage in Yarmouth.

He rolls over to find comfort in her presence, but finds cold empty sheets. It is storming outside and he knows that's where she's gone.

Casey stumbles down the shoreline to find Pamela laying in the sand, completely naked.

Casey watches her and thinks about how generic her father's story is (about his emmegration to America) and how he knows there are questions that he will never know the answer to in regards to his wife.

Another bolt of lightning and Casey sees a dark shadow beyond Pamela.

He instinctively runs toward her to protect her. When he arrives to her, yelling for her to come inside, she pulls him down and they make love right there.

Two great quotes from this chapter:

Born to the sea, she was; a mermaid in a bowl of tears. And he with his feet planted firmly in the earth. (pg 73)

But it bothered him to realize that somewhere inside here was a core of loneliness that he could not penetrate, a loss that was shrouded but not healed. Bothered him that the sea somehow gave her relief that he could not. His wife, yet there was always some element of her that eluded him. (pg 74)

(Sorry I didn't get this posted yesterday. My internet connection went down and now I'm behind. I'll try to get my last chapter posted in a few hours.)

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