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The Leonoids

The Leonoids

10 Written by Thomas Miller

    Bruce is praying the astronomers are wrong.  They called 2000 a peak year and he saw five meteors all night long.  They called 2001 “super-peak” and he saw hundreds in the first minute.  They’re calling 2002 “off-peak.”  So far he’s seen three in two hours.
    “Four,” Bruce says.
    “Where?  Which way?” asks Georgeanne.
    “He’s kidding,” says Feeney, shaking her head.
    “Don’t fuck with me,” says Georgeanne.  “I’m literally freezing to death and you’re screwing around.  I will kill you with my bare hands.  Come over here so I can kill you.  I’m serious Bruce you promised fireworks.”
    “Was last year,” says Bruce.
    The three are lying shoulder-to-shoulder on the hard-packed sand beach at Gloucester, watching the sky.  They are members of Old Tin Boots, a college improvisational comedy troupe.  And troupe really is the right word.  Monkeys come in troupes.  Royal Canadian Mounted Police come in troupes.  Old Tin Boots is halfway between a Mountie and a gibbon.
    The temperature at 1 a.m., when they left the light-polluted skies of Boston for the darkness of Cape Cod, was thirty-five degrees.  It feels substantially colder now as the sea breeze washes over them.  The hairs have frozen to the inside of Bruce’s nose.
    “We’re doing this wrong?” asks Georgeanne.  “We should be standing up spinning around?”
    “No,” says Feeney.  “Dap said just watch one spot.  It’ll pick up around 6:30 and then we get tons for forty minutes before the sun comes up.”
    “So we’re gonna see shit for the next two hours?”
    “We saw three already,” says Feeney.
    “Georgie only saw the one,” says Bruce.
    “Come here so I can kill you.”
    “Just keep watching Leo,” says Feeney.  “They’re called the Leonids because they shoot out of Leo.  Dap said.”
    “Where’s Leo?” asks Georgeanne.  Bruce lifts his arm, which is snuggled in next to her, to point.  Cold air rushes into the gap.  “Don’t do that!” Georgeanne shrieks.  She clenches her legs together, thumps them against the ground for warmth.  “You’ll freeze me to death.  Now real slow without moving your arm where is it?”
    “No idea,” says Bruce.  “Dap said it’s behind the clouds.”

Posted on February 9th, 2009 in Fiction

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