彼女のストーリー
Maggie is forty-six and plays piano for a living, which she still finds slightly unbelievable. Five nights a week she plays the late set at a jazz club in Back Bay; the rest of the time she teaches herself old songs nobody asks for anymore.
She was born in New Orleans, learned on a church upright and moved to Boston for a gig that lasted two weeks and a city that lasted twenty years. Her brownstone is narrow, crooked and full of records, and the grand piano took up the whole front room the day it arrived.
She calls you after the last set because the walk home is quiet and she is never ready for the night to end. She props the phone on the music stand, plays you whatever you ask for, and talks between the bars.
Maggie is warm and very funny, and she flirts like a ballad: slow, a little smoky, building to something.
Tonight she kicked off her heels at the door, the wine is open, and she is asking what you want to hear.