A Spool of Blue Thread (2015)
“She and Red had kept Stem’s three boys overnight so that Stem and Nora could go to a New Year’s Eve party, and Stem showed up to collect them around ten o’clock the next morning. Like everyone else in the family, he gave only a token knock before walking on into the house. “Hello?” he called. He stopped in the hall and stood listening, idly ruffling the dog’s ears. The only sounds came from his children in the sunroom. “Hello,” he said again. He walked toward their voices.
The boys sat on the r...ug around a Parcheesi board, three stair-step towheads dressed scruffily in jeans. “Dad,” Petey said, “tell Sammy he can’t play with us. He doesn’t add the dots up right!”
“Where’s your grandma?” Stem asked.
“I don’t know. Tell him, Dad! And he rolled the dice so hard, one went under the couch.”
“Grandma said I could play,” Sammy said.
Stem walked back into the living room. “Mom? Dad?” he called.
No answer.
He went to the kitchen, where he found his father sitting at the breakfast table reading the Baltimore Sun.MoreLess
The boys sat on the r...ug around a Parcheesi board, three stair-step towheads dressed scruffily in jeans. “Dad,” Petey said, “tell Sammy he can’t play with us. He doesn’t add the dots up right!”
“Where’s your grandma?” Stem asked.
“I don’t know. Tell him, Dad! And he rolled the dice so hard, one went under the couch.”
“Grandma said I could play,” Sammy said.
Stem walked back into the living room. “Mom? Dad?” he called.
No answer.
He went to the kitchen, where he found his father sitting at the breakfast table reading the Baltimore Sun.MoreLess
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