Coin #2 - Quantum Coin (43 page)

“If you get it back later, it'll be
your
lucky night,” she said.

They compromised on dinner: They ordered Mexican
and
Chinese and stayed in for a movie that neither of them saw much of.

As Zoe and Ephraim kissed, he was distantly aware of the sound of a coin clattering to the bare wood floor and rolling under the living room couch. It spun for a few moments and stopped.
Heads or tails?
he wondered.

Zoe sighed and pushed him away. “Fine. Check if you want to,” she said.

He checked under the couch, but he couldn't see it there or anywhere else in the vicinity. He slid his hand along the dusty floorboards.

The quarter was gone.

“So? Heads or tails?” Zoe asked.

He smiled. “Both.”

E. C. Myers was assembled in the United States from Korean and German parts and raised by his mother and a public library in his hometown of Yonkers, New York, on which Summerside is loosely based. He has worked as a doorman, food server, security guard, web designer, software consultant, technical writer, video editor, tape librarian, digital media manager, and blogger, and he now writes copy for a pediatric hospital. E. C. attended the Clarion West Writers Workshop in 2005 and is a member of Altered Fluid, a prolific writing group in New York City. His website is
www.ecmyers.net
.