Dale and Ustina

By Richard Dumovich

Dale goes out routinely in the morning to a windowless downtown office, and from there, after most of the sunlit hours under fluorescents, he turns himself back to his apartment out in the foggy avenues, to his wife and two kittens. And though he goes out to bookshops and caf s, the only other place that holds any significance for him is the bus that shuttles him to and from these places. It is strangely on the bus where he feels most relaxed, in this transitive place where he is unknown.

Ustina is not able to read while on the bus. It's always made her sick whenever she tries. She travels, instead, letting her eyes wander over fellow passengers. From time to time she finds herself the object of another pair of roaming eyes. But she is careful. She has learned what the toss of her head or the lean of her body might suggest. It isn't that she is married that keeps her from making eye-contact with someone other than her husband. But on a bus? People who meet and have meaningful, lasting relationships never do so in such public places - they meet through friends or family, at work or school, in evening classes, but certainly not on a bus.

A romance of 20 encounters, Dale and Ustina begins on a bus in San Francisco and spills out into the greater environment in which they live. Will their private encounters in this public space develop into something more meaningful?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1477646108
• ISBN13: 9781477646106
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 100 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"