Pictures of Lily- Novella

The swirling synthesized notes of Baba O’Reily took Marin back to his youth.

He was ten, and he was riding shotgun in Mimi's car. Mimi was his sitter, and his first fully qualified crush. It was 1974; he was nine and almost too old for a sitter. Mimi steered that huge gold Vista Cruiser with a combination of finesse and daredevilism that completely impressed itself on Martin as a quality to be feared and admired. He was in the throes of the purest of puppy love with his Mimi- a spritely maiden of 22 or so with long, wild, insane coffee colored hair.
They drove through suburban Kirkland, the rare golden afternoon sunshine lending a golden glow to the fallen leave and meshing with the crisp Autumn chill to make a peculiar magic that would stay with Martin forever, if only in his subconscious.

Concept- A 16 year old boy is given a car for his birthday by his dad in 1980. He finds pictures, a few years old, of a mystery girl named Lily. She sticks with him through a marriage and subsequent divorce. In 2005, he decides to find Lily, taking his teenage daughter along. There's father/daughter bonding, loss, grief, and redemption. And what of Lily?

This is part of a novella tetatively titled "Pictures of Lily" copyright 2007 by Anastasia Hunt.