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  • From: allenhenriquez
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    Across Many Oceans by Allen Henriquez

    Part III

     

         The sea stirred and crashed about the rocks on a deep blue day in December with the winds clocking in the waves at some twenty knots, but with the upheaval and churning it was still a routine day for Orrin at the lighthouse.  He was however with a greater thought process than the sea’s intensity could put upon him.

         Orrin, during the course of his duties had a surreal dilemma to decipher from his dinner date at Abigail’s the other night.  Did he really discover the undead jazz musician Uno Imeman at Abigail’s home, alive, and married to a middle school principal in Queens? The answer had to be “No,” because with “No,” all was well, clarity returns.  He loved music, music and the sea, these were his great loves, with a seemingly natural bond and flow between the two.  Orrin, when he was seven, his grandfather, Patrick Willis, taught him the guitar.  Orrin’s hero on guitar was and is Earl Klugh, his grandfather’s was Charlie Christian.  The guitar is still Orrin’s close companion in the lighthouse when not engaged in his normal duties. 

         The interesting thing about Abigail’s stepfather, Arnold Orville, and his ability with a guitar isn’t that he plays it very well, it’s that he plays it the way the dead Uno Imeman played the sax; and he looks like an older version of the dead man.  

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         It was a Sunday night in December when Orrin got a surprise visit from Clifford Miles.  Orrin invited him in and Clifford was very much appreciative, he with a bottle of good brandy in his sack with glasses.  He was a smiling, talkative fellow, so much so that he made Orrin feel inarticulate and reticent.  Clifford offered Orrin a drink, but he refused. 

         “So what brings you around here, Clifford?” Orrin asked with a smile.

         “I want you to stay away from Eva, Orrin,” Clifford stated, still smiling, but with the anger creeping through it.

         “Eva is very old news.  Seven years old, and from what I’ve heard that’s very close to the same timeframe for you,” Orrin replied.

         Clifford took a drink, waited for the impact to fade then replied, “I’m going to get back with her and you stay clear, Orrin, you hear?”

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    To be continued…

     

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  • From: allenhenriquez
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    Across Many Oceans by Allen Henriquez

    Part II

     

    It is not known from what source Eva Covington received word that her former, near to husband, Orrin was in a relationship with her friend Abigail Morris.  But upon getting the message Eva was crushed.  The information exploded in her head but unfortunately there were no items available to break or smash into smithereens, which made her feel deeply depressed.  The idea that Eva could be even mildly impacted by any news about Orrin, she being seven years removed from him, was strange.  But Eva’s reaction would be considered totally logical to a large number of persons who know that Eva’s break up so many years ago from Orrin was done not to end a loveless relationship, it was to so call elevate the quality of her companionship to the level of her status in the writing world.  A mere sea captain as a mate seemed a sacrilege, and the moments in past tense when Eva mentioned Orrin and his livelihood, brought swirls, sneers, twisted faces, and the utterance of  “Oh.”  Orrin’s replacement, Clifford Miles was not only more palatable he was ideal.  A successful writer with another established, if not as successful, writer.  But Clifford, although bright and witty was without the emotional depth she so needed to ground her existence with because he lacked sureness and clarity.  Six months was all she could take of the: high intellect, low patience, nervous, and insecure, chatter box, that was Clifford.  The idea of going back to Orrin was in her mind, out of the question, and would be viewed as provincial, with many challenging the so called avant garde persona that Eva had worked so hard to cultivate.

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    On this Wednesday in December Orrin drove his gray jeep to Abigail’s home, a townhouse on Seagrit Boulevard just off of Beach 9^th Street in Far Rockaway.  Abigail lives in this, fairly new, brown brick structure, with her mom, Beatrice.  Beatrice is an assistant principal at a middle school in town, she at age fifty-five, lost her first husband, Albert Morris, five years ago.  Albert, a dentist who had a heart attack, was a loving husband and father.  Beatrice married again three years ago to a fellow with a music shop onCentral Avenue named Arnold Orrville.

    Arnold a well traveled man of sixty-six, looked his age, but was a pleasant and extremely bright fellow.  Orrin, invited for dinner, wasn’t what would be expected from a young man meeting the parents of a lady he was seriously interested in, he wasn’t nervous nor was he a laconic sea captain turned lighthouse keeper type.  He was animated, upbeat, and comfortable, speaking as well as listening.  But the bigger surprise came not from Beatrice or Abigail, but from the stepfather, Arnold Orrville, not because he told Orrin, “If you’re smart you’ll ask this young lady to marry you before someone snatches her away from you.”  Yes, that was a very happy and hopeful shock, but the greater shock came from Orrin toward the end of the evening when the two men were talking music andArnoldbrought out two guitars.  They played jazz tunes, with Orrin, after twenty minutes realizing that he was playing music with a once very famous musician, who was pronounced dead more than thirty-five years ago.

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