![]() ![]() I hugged her, selfishly I hugged her because I needed her. I watched her stifle it all, her eyelids contracting, her face wide and pleading. ![]() ![]() A hot dash of mascara spread across her temple, a hiccup made her throat lunge. Kathy’s words, languid on her slurring tongue, slipped low into my guts and gave me the feeling of an acceleration over a rolling county road, the swift but minor free fall of my organs. Like I’d won a sleeper sofa or an RV on an afternoon gameshow. On the Internet, friends I hadn’t spoken with since college messaged me on my good fortune. A current of uneasy affection ran beneath their words, and I sensed their tight little smiles aching behind each phone. T he dogs were pulling strips of connective tissue off raw beef bones, their bellies spread against the cool grass, when Kathy came across the gravel drive with news of his death.īy evening, a dozen people had called me, saying everything short of congratulations, as if I had some agency over his ill heart and its collapse. ![]()
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