I can do this.
“Hello?” she says.
I smile. “Sure. What’ll you have?”
“A margarita, I think.”
I order her drink from the bartender and get myself another beer. When she has her margarita in hand, she taps the brim of her glass against my bottle.
“So, do you dance?” she asks.
“I can learn.”
She smiles. “Now those are three words I like to hear from a man.”
CHARLES DE LINT and his wife, the artist MaryAnn Harris, live in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. His evocative novels, including Moonheart, Forests of the Heart, and The Onion Girl, have earned him a devoted following and critical acclaim as a master of contemporary magical fiction in the manner of story-tellers like John Crowley, Jonathan Carroll, Alice Hoffman, Ray Bradbury, and Isabel Allende.
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De Lint, Charles.
Widdershins / Charles de Lint.—1st ed.
p. cm.
“A Tom Doherty Associates book.”
ISBN 0-765-31285-9 (acid-free paper)
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1. Newford (Imaginary place)—Fiction. 2. City and town life—Fiction. 3. Magic—Fiction.
4. Man-woman relationships—Fiction. I. Title.
PR9199.3.D357W53 2006
813’.54—dc22
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