She sits in the dark and stares at TV static while thinking about the artist whose first name is Tennessee and the musician whose last name is Kentucky. Both “former,” it seems, as in dead, possibly even murdered. Maybe even… one and the same? Shelley phones up Edward to talk about it. Hubby Arthur is off acting again in a far away location. The boyfriend will have to do.
“Meet me at Sarah’s,” she requested. “Let’s walk around the town together.” She didn’t add, “then come back here,” but it was implied.
“Let’s make it Lexi’s,” altered Edward, knowing Sarah was quite the gossip.
“On my way, then.”
Contractually, she was required to wear the Crazy Blue outfit at all times now, no exceptions. Except one.
Later she studies the sappy “Abduct My Heart” lamp given to her by Arthur for her birthday before he left. She begins to cry.
What did she figure out? That Tennessee and Kentucky were indeed one beyond the Black Wall.
Sunklands 