When the Rain Ends by Mary Ellen Taylor EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
- Author: Mary Ellen Taylor
- Language: English
- Formats: PDF / EPUB
- Status: Available For Free Download
- Genre: Contemporary Women’s Fiction
- Price: Free
- File Size: 2 MB
- Publish Date: April 08, 2023
DANI
Outer Banks, North Carolina
Friday, June 2, 2023
11:00 a.m.
Blue.
Describing the colors of the Currituck Sound had once been a
complicated business for Dani Manchester. On sunny days, she’d have
spoken of navy hues streaked with teal bands. Or traces of cobalt mingling
with indigo. Sapphire marbling ribbons of cerulean. On overcast mornings,
she’d have searched the greens on her mental color wheel for olives,
emeralds, and jades. And then there were the undertones. Black. Gray.
Avocado.
Blue was a fine color. Nothing wrong with blue. But as a descriptor of
this body of water, it fell flat.
Today as she drove across the Wright Memorial Bridge toward her new
life on the mainland, she scrambled through her adjectives, hoping to
translate the clear sky and calm waters into the familiar. But today, all the
magical descriptors escaped her. And the only word that came to mind was
“blue.” No vibrant displays, no heart-pounding bursts, no exotic tints.
Just blue.
Light. Clarity. Vision. They were her stock-in-trade as an artist and
gallery owner. And they were all fading.
Dani’s carefully curated future had been rewritten a year ago by a
doctor in Norfolk, Virginia, who’d told her she was slowly losing her sight.
Retinitis pigmentosa was what the doctor called it. A genetic disease that in
her case had led to the slow narrowing and darkening of her vision. Her
doctor had likened her field of vision to the interior of a pipe. For now, the
cylinder was almost at full capacity, but it would narrow to the circumference
of a straw. It could be years (number undetermined) before she lost her vision
completely. Or it might all vanish next fall.
She’d made it through the tourist season last year at her Duck, North
Carolina, art gallery because she was so familiar with every turn in the road,
all the street crossings and speed limit signs and parking lot entrances. During
last winter’s lull, for the first time in her life, she’d dreaded the arrival of the
spring and summer tourists. The season always brought vacationers who
crossed Duck Road without looking, cycled a knife’s edge from traffic, or
didn’t anticipate cars pulling out of driveways like hers.
The air tightened as the radio played the most recent Taylor Swift song.
A glance in her rearview mirror confirmed that her daughter, Bella, outfitted
with wireless earbuds, was not listening as her head leaned against the
window. Bella’s expression was lost and forlorn. The last link to her old life
was ending. The child was convinced she’d never be happy again. Maybe it
would take time, but Dani hoped that at some point they both would look
back on this day as a good day.
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