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by: EmmaPele

the violin
This is how utopian Emma's neighborhood is.  After a long day of work, struggling with non-English speaking students, Emma comes home to find that the power has cascaded off, probably because everyone has turned on their air conditioners in this first really hot day of summer.  This is a good thing.  There is nothing electrically powered, including computers and televisions and stoves, that Emma really feels like dealing with anyway.  She lounges on her blue tie-dyed futon on the sun porch, reading Will Self's The Book of Dave, studying her daughter's latest work of art pinned to a board out here, talking to her son about the brilliance of The Sopranos and other media events,  eating a sandwich, watching the squirrels, the cardinals, the wasps, the tall trees on the perimeter of her property, which is not so far away, 25 feet maybe?  Suddenly, she hears music.
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