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You entered stage left, and brought a bouquet to this impromptu play.

Summer burned desperate and long. The smell of smoke, hushed voices in the dark. Cricket chirps barely audible behind the soundtrack of mosquitos being swatted. There is a palpable danger in the air, and it's delicious.

Clandestine eateries, bars, patios inhabited by wonderful and tragic strangers. Smartphone-glow illuminates a magically ramshackle evening. River ripples. A bouncer's tattoo.

And like that, the quiet is smashed by the storms above, in my brain. The walls were shaking in time with the flashes outside the window.

Only the smoke detector and I know the truth.

Description
You entered stage left, and brought a bouquet to this impromptu play.

Summer burned desperate and long. The smell of smoke, hushed voices in the dark. Cricket chirps barely audible behind the soundtrack of mosquitos being swatted. There is a palpable danger in the air, and it's delicious.

Clandestine eateries, bars, patios inhabited by wonderful and tragic strangers. Smartphone-glow illuminates a magically ramshackle evening. River ripples. A bouncer's tattoo.

And like that, the quiet is smashed by the storms above, in my brain. The walls were shaking in time with the flashes outside the window.

Only the smoke detector and I know the truth.