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    Azotea
    Azotea
    Azotea
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    Azotea

    By Joe Bondi Beach

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    My housekeeper asked if her younger sister could come to live with us for a little while. I said yes. The two had their own agenda, and complications ensued. A flat rooftop azotea is good for a lot more than hanging laundry to dry.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLulu.com
    Release dateMar 4, 2017
    ISBN9781365798542
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      Azotea - Joe Bondi Beach

      AZOTEA

      Joe Bondi Beach

      Also by Joe Bondi Beach

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      Sarah’s Honeymoon

      Cheerleaders in Paradise

      A New Life for Julie

      Chloe

      A Picnic with April

      Julie

      Emily

      Micol: Three Stories (Ed.)

      Emily and Daniel

      Spring Break in Napa

      and Other Stories

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      Goddess

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      Copyright

      AZOTEA

      First Edition (ePub)

      September 2017

      Copyright © 2017 by Joe Bondi Beach

      This work is licensed under the

      Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-

      NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

      ISBN: 978-1-365-79854-2

      This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

      Clearing Rain Press

      San Francisco, California

      clearing.rain.press@gmail.com

      Acknowledgements

      The cover image is a detail from and transformation of Tina on the Azotea (1924), by Edward Weston.

      Use of this derived image does not represent any endorsement of this story or the author by the artist. The image does not represent any of the characters in this story.

      The traditional flat rooftop azotea found in older houses throughout Mexico and elsewhere is more commonly used for drying laundry and other prosaic household tasks than for parties or hot tubbing or spying on the neighbors, although sunbathing is not unheard of.

      That’ll be the day is John Wayne’s iconic line in The Searchers (1956), directed by John Ford.

      †

      With thanks to S, who gave me the idea for this story. She knows the azotea well, but she may not have expected this.

      AZOTEA

      for Christ’s sake, hurry, just pull up and keep

      the motor running and take me wherever you’re going.

      —from Collapsing Poem in Tell Me, by Kim Addonizio

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      Little Sister

      I walked up behind her at the parapet where she rested her elbows to steady the binoculars. I know she heard me but she didn’t turn. Her target

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