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    Imitating Art
    Imitating Art
    Imitating Art
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    Imitating Art

    By Ed Teja

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    Telling tales has consequences

    Brad rents a room in a Cambodian fishing village to write a Caribbean story.

    Wanting to impress a bar girl, he tells her the story and learns how well strange tales travel if they are true.

    But storytelling has consequences and this one abruptly changes more than one life.

    An odd and compelling tale of backpacking and storytelling.  

     

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFloat Street Press
    Release dateJun 30, 2016
    ISBN9781533749321

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      Imitating Art - Ed Teja

      The little wooden house wasn’t much, but that was fine; he didn’t need much and preferred things simple. It had a bathroom and a big bedroom that doubled as a living room. A nice porch afforded a glimpse of the sea, but the house didn’t offer much else. No aircon, no mod cons, as the adverts for apartments in the city read. It fit in nicely with the rest of the little fishing village surrounding it.

      He had read that the village once aspired to being discovered and wanted to become a tourist destination — and failed. Now it was a little shabby, poorly maintained and pleasant. In short, he found it perfect for his needs.

      He was sure that the rent the chubby woman quoted him was high for the off-season; still, it was less than he had expected her to ask. He bargained a bit, mostly for the sake of form; she grudgingly came down a bit and the matter was settled

      No contract, she told him, the smile she couldn’t entirely suppress suggesting he was still overpaying. Pay in cash. I don’t want trouble with tax people.

      He smiled, knowing that meant that she didn’t pay taxes. He shrugged it off. Her dealings with her government had nothing to do with him. He stepped out on the porch and inhaled the air, smelling the salt from the sea and the pungent odors of fish that drifted up from the market.

      I can work here, he thought.

      Fine, he told her, handing her the money. Just so we agree on the dates. I am paying for a full month.

      I don’t cheat, she said. You be a good tenant and we are friends.

      For some reason, unclear even to him, he trusted her. Not entirely, but he knew she wouldn’t cheat, exactly. She’d take every advantage though. He’d have to keep an eye on the utility bills.

      She joined him on the porch and pointed down the street. Not far, a little way down the street is the best bar in town. It has good food, nice girls. Clean girls. It’s called The Texas Bar.

      Brad laughed, trying to remember if he had ever been in a waterfront town that didn’t have a Texas Bar. He’d been in them from Barcelona to Malta to Bangkok. Good food?

      She

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