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This is Matthew Licht, talking about his last book The Moose Show. Matthew’s story ‘Amourang’ appears in this month’s issue of Litro, available from Friday 5th September. Here’s an excerpt.
I didn’t have to try too hard. Twelve beers, a big can of pineapple juice, a half-pint of pearly, unctuous, heart-stopping coconut cream got together and went down with a quart of rum before you could say yo-ho-ho. At sunset, not trusting ourselves to drive or be driven, we took a stroll and had dinner at a place called Le Beache Combeur. The tables were all outdoors, over the water, under dripping mangroves and banyans. Waitresses and patrons tossed congealed French fries, hamburger scraps, salad remains and saltines overboard to be slurpingly devoured by monstrous tarpon that haunted the bay. I’d never seen a tarpon before, except under a heavy coat of varnish in a bar on Broadway. I thought of them as rare, exotic game fish–tough, elusive adversaries for barrel-chested men straining at dangerously bent fishing rods–but there they were, sliding by like elongated gray ghosts, sucking down garbage like goldfish.
Back at the Sea Empress, the weeping started. Midnight had come and gone; the three of us were slumped in chairs out on the deck, following the lights of ships leaving and entering the harbor. Nibs whispered, “Tom took me to Catalina on our first date. In a seaplane. Wasn’t that special?”
