All American Boy
“Luz is saying as they sit at the kitchen table, their cups of orange tea between them. “Just for a little while, Mrs. Day, and then I’ll be back.”
Ever since she’d gotten home from the hospital from seeing Uncle Axel, Regina has had the feeling that something terrible would happen. And now it has. Luz is going to leave her. She’s going to go. She took the money and now she was going to go.
The girl had found her at the shed, trying to pry off the boards with a hammer.
“Mrs. Day, what are you do...ing? You wanted me to board it up!”
He’s got to be in there. I dragged his body from the living room through the kitchen then out through the back door. His head bumped against each step of the back porch. I remember. I can see his head hitting every step. It’s so clear in my mind.
But Luz said there was nothing in the shed.
I’m afraid I might be losing my mind.
It’s happened before, why not again?
It wasn’t a spa that they sent her to. That’s what Aunt Selma called it, but it was no spa.MoreLess
Ever since she’d gotten home from the hospital from seeing Uncle Axel, Regina has had the feeling that something terrible would happen. And now it has. Luz is going to leave her. She’s going to go. She took the money and now she was going to go.
The girl had found her at the shed, trying to pry off the boards with a hammer.
“Mrs. Day, what are you do...ing? You wanted me to board it up!”
He’s got to be in there. I dragged his body from the living room through the kitchen then out through the back door. His head bumped against each step of the back porch. I remember. I can see his head hitting every step. It’s so clear in my mind.
But Luz said there was nothing in the shed.
I’m afraid I might be losing my mind.
It’s happened before, why not again?
It wasn’t a spa that they sent her to. That’s what Aunt Selma called it, but it was no spa.MoreLess
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