A busy day at Lu's Car Garage. The icy streets, a sinister afterthought to yesterday's storm, had led to a string of car crashes the day after. Magdalane did not escape the vehicular chaos, and her car was slowly towed into Lu's with a busted fender and a spastic tailight. Lu spotted the seductive wreck from the dirt-stained office window. She came down from the AAA truck, slightly off kilter, but nevertheless powerfully smooth. Lu tried his hardest to shake off the romantic urges he thought had died in Vietnam. The shine of her body caught his eye like a bird who sees a piece of sheet metal amongst a sea of dead batteries and diapers. He tried turning up his radio to distract himself, but Smokey Robinson only made it worse. He closed the blinds to his office, but the sound she made on the floor moved him like Beethoven to his Ninth.
"Dam Cats!" he yelled in frustration.
As she approached him, Lu glanced at her out of the corner of his eye. He wanted so badly to treat her with more care than the others, but at the same time he felt contempt for her self-assurance and capacity for love, of which he didn't know whether he still possessed.
"Oh, to feel her shape and form. Oh, to go faster and faster with her. Oh, to ride her!" Lu thought with schoolboy ecstasy. While no one was lookin, Lu reached out and ran his hand down her smooth body, mapping the contours with his cracked and bruised fingers.
"Mr. Garigami?" asked Magdalane.
Lu jumped to her attention with terrible fright, but then looked off in fake apathy.
"Ya what?"
"Were you just touching my car?" asked Magdalane.
"No. Stupid qestion! What you want?"
"Just fix my Jaguar please."
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1. I can see self-centeredness in Lu...is that a defense mechanism? He seems like he'd push people away, and that's conveyed subtly and well in these posts. He's funny, too...
ReplyDelete2. I'm curious about his past and how he came to know Magdalene. A suggestion? Um...I don't have one, really. I'm just excited.
3. I lovelovelove the comparison between Mag and her car...that's awesome.
I can see how Lu interacts with others through his conversations. They're great and show how he is slightly awkward socially but knows what he wants to convey.
ReplyDeleteIn your second post especially you bring up alot of unexplained issues: Lu has felt worse mentally maybe once or twice; Lu owes Yung Li something...these are intriguing.
FYI my dog and I come to the abandoned lot across from your shop sometimes. In my blog you throw old scrap parts there.