Sunday, March 20, 2022

Togetherness (serials)

     She's doing it again today, just with those beads on the spiral staircase this time. Popping them off one by one, staring at nothing.
     Sitting there all dusty. I don't even know where she got that coat. She's getting thinner every day.

    She didn't come home until morning, damp all in her hair G_d knows from where. She must have run through the sprinklers or something but I didn't hear them. Who knows.
    "Yeah! You're making tea!" She grabs me from behind, I only spill a little.

    "You smell like a wet dog," I wriggle out of her arms as she settles on the stool.
    "I wasn't Out, I was just in the yard."
    "All night?" I turn to bring her mug and sit across the little birch table from her. She nods and smiles, sipping.

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