The note held.
Little Pete sat on the curb, tuning his radio with a paperclip. The station was always there—a frequency that played only one song, a tuba-and-glockenspiel waltz that nobody else seemed to hear. But tonight, the signal was breaking up. “It’s fading,” he muttered. “The song’s trying to end.”
“Complete what?”
Then Little Pete stood up. “We have to complete it.”
The sun didn’t set in Wellsville so much as it melted —slowly, like a cherry popsicle left on a dashboard. And on this particular evening, the two Petes found themselves on opposite ends of a problem neither could solve alone. pete and pete complete
“Now what?” Big Pete asked.
Big Pete, leaning against his bike, squinted at the sky. “Nothing ends here. Remember the week Tuesday lasted six days?” The note held
“The incomplete.”