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. Kind of like you re doing now.www.total-e-bound.comIF COME A.J.Llewellyn 133Dominic looked at him, his face full of sympathy. I m sorry if I had anything to dowith your& little block. You called it acedia. Yes, I did. You ve been through it? Yep. It s kind of a beautiful word, really. Zam pronounced it again,  A-see-dee-yuh. You re right& and yet it used to be one of the seven deadly sins. Really? Yep, replaced by sloth.Acedia is considered a precursor to it. Wow.That s kind of& gruesome.And you re okay now? I am& I m glad I m here with you, Zam. Me too. Zam hesitated. There s a lot I don t know about you. Backatcha.I d like to have the time to find out for both of us, but right now& back towork, O scrumptious one.Okay, scene one. Dominic typed. Where is the audition? I thought one of the studios maybe& Universal or Warner Brothers? Someplace with agreat backlot. Love that idea.How about Paramount? New York Street has just been decorated for aChristmas special.It would be fun to see her walking through it. Dominic snapped hisfingers. Oh, I think I get it! Your idea is for us to think she s walking through a real place,only it s a backlot& This sets up the idea from the very beginning that things are not as theyseem& ever& on this show. Exactly! Zam was so thrilled Dominic got it.And so it went& For two hours, they tossed ideas back and forth, running linestogether as Dominic typed.They re-read what they d written, Zam marvelling at how fun ithad been and how well they worked together. We need to talk about writing credits and stuff, Zam said at one point, but Dominicwaved away the idea. This is your project.I m just helping you. Do I get to have some inspiration now? Zam asked when it started to get dark andDominic switched on some lights.www.total-e-bound.comIF COME A.J.Llewellyn 134Dominic yawned, stretched, leant down and kissed him. Nothing would give me greater pleasure, except we need a rain check.We resupposed to be at your mom s in exactly fifteen minutes.* * * *Zam s mother, Maureen, lived in Brentwood, not far from Zam s house, in a Cape Codstyle home on Bristol Avenue.She had coveted the house for years and, as strange as itseemed to many, Zam s father had bought the house and given it to her during their divorce.It had been an amicable divorce, even if Colin and Maureen s partner, Annie, weren t on thefriendliest terms.It was sad& but perhaps inevitable.Annie felt threatened by theCarmarthens long but rocky marriage. I warn you, they re barmy, Zam said as he and Dominic walked up the dimly litpathway to the house.His mother had gone so green she used recycled vegetable oil for hervehicle instead of gasoline.She bought it at a special gas station in West LA for ten dollars agallon.It was expensive and the smell of French fries always pervaded her BMW. Why do I smell French fries? Dominic asked, sniffing the night air as they pressed thefront doorbell a second time.Zam hoped the two women inside weren t having sex. I ll explain later.Let s go, Zam said, hoping to avoid an embarrassing evening.Hismother was a brilliant architect but had no social filters.She was a bit like Will Lassiter, nowthat he thought about it. We can t go. Dominic sounded horrified.The door flung open and there stoodMaureen and Annie, holding a massive towel around their bodies. We re getting massages, they said.Dominic grinned. How fun! he enthused.How fucking embarrassing! Zam fumed as the women pawed and mauled his date. Aren t you yummy? Maureen asked. I have no idea what the baby told you, but wedon t bite, although in your case we might make an exception. She and Annie giggled overhim.Suddenly, Maureen frowned. Zam, where are you going? Nowhere, he lied, his toe on the bottom step.Dominic turned and grabbed his hand. Come on, sweetie.www.total-e-bound.comIF COME A.J.Llewellyn 135Inside, the women left them alone. We won t be long, Maureen trilled.Great& fabulous.Zam tugged at the collar of the shirt he d borrowed from Dominicearlier that day.What a day it had been fun& up until now. Sweetie, don t be embarrassed. Dominic took him in his arms. I m so pleased to behere with you.I ve heard about Maureen.She s the woman who designed the adobe houseKevin Costner built, isn t she?Zam nodded, miserable, until Dominic gave him a sweet, but lusty kiss. Why does she call you the baby? You must be around my age thirty, right? Yeah.It s a long story [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]