A Summer’s Tale
This is a continuation of the Mike Kaminsky story.
In the first two tales, The Prodigal Son and The Wrong Right Turn, death seems to be taking too much interest in Mike’s life. I was hoping that, with this story, Mike’s luck might change for the better.
I think it did – he met Mel. I hope that she helps to take his mind off some of his recent pain. You know, I’ve got a really good feeling that she will.
I met her on the road back from Les Sables. She’d been there for the fireworks party and mega celebrations that always followed the end of the Round the World yacht race.
She later told me that she wasn’t so interested in yachting, although she admitted that she found most yachtsmen, particularly the round the world ones, sexy as hell.
“The great thing about long distance racing,” she told me. “Is that the boats come in over a period of two or three days. Thus, the parties go on for at least two or three days. Cool parties, fit sailors, what more could a girl want?”
That’s not exactly the first thing she said to me. Not quite.
A Summer’s Tale is published in Different Roads (due to be published in February 2010). To find out more, take a look at… Different Roads
