Rough draft of short story
It was probably the dumbest thing she had ever thought in her lifeand the very dumbest thing she had ever said. There they were, coming downthe escalator at the airport in Dublin, Ireland, and she had to blurt out,"Wow! All these people look Irish." Well, duh. No wonder he had lefther. Sure, he had waited ten years, but she just knew it had to have beenthat idiotic remark. Who could live with anyone dumb enough to say the And now here she was again, arriving in Ireland, without a man,without a job, but with every intention of getting a job working withhorses, getting a husband, and getting settled in the one place on earthshe had always wanted to be. It seemed there was just one problem: at themoment, the Irish police thought she was a terrorist. The main character is lost in her own thoughts on arriving at DublinInternational Airport. She is under stress, having decided to leave theUnited States for good on the heels of a divorce, and she is beratingherself for being less than she thinks she should be. As she is havingthese negative thoughts about herself, she is sitting on a ha
The lighting isfluorescent, and too bright. rd chair in a'holding room' at the airport, where she has been taken on suspicion ofbeing a terrorist because of something that showed up in the x-rays of herluggage. It doesn't even have atelephone; the Gard uses a cell phone and/or walkie-talkie. In view of hercurrent situation of polite incarceration, the dreams seem all the morepoignant, and perhaps unreachable. It is too chilly in the room for Moira'sshort-sleeved polo shirt and summer-weight jeans. If you'd just open the case, orlet me open it, you'd see," Moira said. There's the thrum of a few escalatorsand occasionally the whoosh of the revolving doors. The tape can only beremoved by cutting it. But she can't shake the dreamsof a great new life with horses from her mind all the same. She no sooner arrives than she is 'arrested' on suspicion of terrorism. Ending scene: "Moira, I'm awfully sorry about all that, but I was just doing myjob. One set of these is withinearshot of Moira, Kevin and Roseleen. Furniture consists ofgreen and blue banks of leather-upholstered chairs strategically placed onblue-green carpeted areas on the marble floor.
Common topics in this essay:
International Airport,
Dublin Horse,
Moira Kevin,
Dublin Ireland,
Horse Week,
Moira I'm,
Gard Kevin,
,
Kevin Roseleen,
Gard Moira,
car rental,
revolving doors,
ceramic tile,
dark blue,
scene description,
description main character,
green blue,
life ireland,
final scene,
international airport,
main character,
'holding room' airport,
dublin international airport,
sitting hard chair,
rising action scene,
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