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Prologue
The Russian River is a California slice of the Amazon, slow and green and endless. Its beaches
are more gravel ... Read Chapter
The Beginning
Sally found it on her way home from her high school graduation. She hadn’t been looking for it,
but ther... Read Chapter
Bachelorette Party
As Leroy, Frances, and Sally floated down the river, the sun reached the highest point in the sky... Read Chapter
Marcel
The moment Marcel first laid eyes on the shoes, he knew he wanted them. They were in the shop window, pink and
ch... Read Chapter
Sequence
At that turning point when darkness starts to creep in at the edges of the sky, Leroy, Frances, and Sally found a... Read Chapter
Shoes
At 35 years old, Linda had made a small fortune designing video games. She had it down to a science, exactly what
... Read Chapter
Eileen’s Bar
The bar had been there forever. It was way up on a jumbled slope of trees and bushes next to the highway, a... Read Chapter
The Dog
There was an old dog that hung around the bar. He was scruffy, neither big nor small, and could often be seen cros... Read Chapter
Guerneville
It was noon when Leroy, Frances, and Sally dragged their raft up onto a crowded public beach at the edge of Gu... Read Chapter
Bridge
That night, a young couple parked their car and got out to stretch their legs. They were dressed in black. The woma... Read Chapter
Unexpected Visitors
Late into the night, when they had been floating for hours, Leroy, Frances and Sally decided to stop a... Read Chapter
Tetris
When the kid beat him, Clyde thought he would be disappointed, but he wasn’t. Instead, something gray crawled ins... Read Chapter
The Show
When the front doors of the bar were thrown open at seven, true to Eileen’s word, a line had already formed out... Read Chapter
Picnic
The next day, Leroy, Frances, and Sally sat on a mossy shore with the redwoods behind them, feet dangling over the ... Read Chapter
The End
As they reached the last leg of their journey, the landscape faded into flat brown fields and the green water beca... Read Chapter
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