Second Life: Dumping the Scum novel · Chapter 23 of 24

Chapter 23: Rain Again

I read it four times on the couch in Studio B.

Then I turned the phone around and held it up to Hudson's face while he was still asleep.

He opened his eyes, read it, and closed them again.

"I knew that," he said.

"You did not."

"I logged it in November. 'Artist cuts the best song of the year. Nobody believes engineer.'"

"Show me."

"It's in a notebook at home," he said. "I'll show you after you win."

The awards were the last Thursday in April.

The same awards, the same hall, the same week of the year.

In my first life I'd been in the fourth row that night, beside my husband.

I'd clapped for my own song with another woman's name on it.

This time I had a gown, a seat on the aisle, and my name in the program.

On Monday of awards week, the forecast said rain.

I looked at it on my phone over coffee at the tire shop.

Emmylou looked at it over my shoulder.

"No," she said.

"I didn't say anything."

"You're thinking about the bridge. You've got bridge face."

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