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The Good, Good Men
Theo had come all the way from New York with no luggage. From
the parking lot Miles watched him spring from the train and weave
past the other travelers, sidestepping their children and suitcases
with practiced nesse, the rst of anyone to make it across the
steaming platform. His hair was shaved close on the sides, one thick
strip left to grow skyward from the crown of his head. In his dark,
lean clothing, hands shoved deep in his pockets, he was a long
streak of black against the brightly colored crowd. He alone had
reached their father’s full height.
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He made no eye contact with Miles as he strode to the car and
yanked at the door handle. Still didn’t as he folded himself in half
and dropped heavily into the passenger seat, releasing a long breath.
“Fucking hot,” he said, pulling the door shut.
Miles threw the car into drive and steered out of the parking lot,
out of the knot of station trac. “Summertime,” he said by way of
assent.
These words, the rst the brothers had spoken aloud to each other
in over a year, hung in the air between them until the car reached
the mouth of the highway. Their mother, Lee, had nally moved
back out to the DC suburbs, to the end house in a single-family
neighborhood all crisscrossed with telephone wires that Miles had
seen often from the road. He was grateful for its proximity, only a
four-mile drive from the train station. Last time around, searching
for her dumpy apartment deep in the District, he and Theo had lost
precious time to gridlock and confounding one-way streets and been
beaten there by their sisters, turning the whole operation to chaos.
A mess of shifting allegiances, tears, hysteria. Later, in the relative
quiet of Miles’s living room, Theo had complained of his ears
ringing.
“No bag, nothing?” asked Miles now, nodding toward Theo’s
empty hands. “We need to stop for a toothbrush?”
“No,” said Theo. “I’m good. I’m out tonight, right after Safeway.”
Miles thought of Lauren back home, washing the guest linens and
googling vegan dinner recipes since morning. “Okay,” he said.
“Quick trip, though.”
“Just to keep it simple,” said Theo. “We dragged it out last time.
A task like that always expands to ll whatever time you allocate for
it. You know? We gave it two days, and it took two days. We were
inecient.” He reached for the dashboard and gave the AC knob a
hard crank, calling up a blast of chilled air. “This time, two hours.
We’ll give it two hours, and we’ll get it done in two hours.”
Miles suppressed a shiver. Stealing a glance at his brother’s
outstretched arm, he saw an arc of freshly inked letters at the
biceps, disappearing beneath a tted sleeve. Lauren, who
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