A Shot in the Dark by Victoria Lee EPUB & PDF

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• Author: Victoria Lee
• Language: English
• Genre: Contemporary Women’s Fiction
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My problem, generally speaking, is that I care too much.
I’m an artist, so maybe I’m supposed to. That’s the stereotype, right?
The prodigy obsessed with perfection, shivering in a frigid garret, huddled
over their masterpiece, bourbon drenched and brilliant. If I didn’t care so
much, maybe I wouldn’t be able to see the true shape of things, how lines
and shapes smudge together perfectly in the light. I wouldn’t be willing to
spend hours in the darkroom with my lungs full of chemicals or waiting in
the park with my tripod for hours until that split second right before the sun
goes down when the world is cast in shades of rose and red, shadows
stretched out long and skinny like bones.

I should have listened the first time someone told me it was a problem,
that time Chaya Levy and I had our big fight when we were fifteen and she
told me that I was a threat to her Yiddishkeit and we needed a friendship
break. You’re just a little too intense, she said, and the accusation flung me
into the kind of immediate, reactive rage that pretty much proved her point.
I can’t stop myself from caring, though, no matter how many times it
gets me in trouble. Which is why it’s incredibly stupid of me to be here at
all, standing at the baggage claim in LaGuardia with my backpack digging
into my shoulder, watching the carousel grind by. I’ve been waiting over
half an hour already, long enough that I’m starting to worry my luggage
didn’t make it, because the baggage guys at LGA are nothing if not efficient
and it’s just me and this one family left waiting. Their five-year-old keeps
trying to climb onto the moving belt, and judging from the pained look on
the mother’s face, she’s thinking about giving up and just letting him cycle
through.

I never thought I’d be back here. When I left New York for LA nearly a
decade ago, I had every intention of never stepping foot in this place again.
I was gonna be all tan lines and margaritas. No more subway. No more
bodega cats. And most important, no more bad memories. It’s amazing how
easily I was seduced by a big, fat art scholarship.

The screen still says LAX—Arrived, so I figure my bags have gotta be
coming sometime soon. Or not. Because this is what I get for arriving at the
airport just forty minutes before my scheduled departure time. Parker is the
most prestigious arts program in the country, and I still had to gamble with
my flight, like, Well, if I miss the plane, maybe it was never meant to be.
I’m not sure how to fit lost luggage into that calculus. If I make my flight
but arrive without my portfolio, or my lenses, or any of my clothes, am I
only half-destined for greatness?

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