Fiction by David Szalay: The things that left him feeling that nothing would ever be the same again—they just aren’t important here.
It’s not really hot enough for swimming. It’s not quite pool weather. It’s, like, seventy-five or something. Still, they spend most of the day poolside—there isn’t anything else to do. The plastic sun loungers next to the pool face those towers—those three towers that look like spikes pointing at the sky, with a few blue spheres impaled on two of them. István opens his eyes and sees them there, in the middle distance, pointing at the empty sky.
“They’re really good,” she says. “Thanks,” István says again. “Yours are cool, too,” she says to Norbi as he, also naked now, takes his place in the tub. “You got any?” István asks her. She shakes her head. Her taller friend is on the far side of the tub. Her face is flushed from the heat of the water, and she seems to be keeping her distance from them. She also shakes her head when István asks if she has any tattoos. There’s a definite tension.
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