Building Blocks
“Kevin helped his mother wash the dishes, Brann noticed, and he thought to himself that he should get up and help his father and grandmother by drying . . .
He couldn’t get it straight, that was the trouble. Brann shook his head, to clear it. Of all the impossible, unexpected—but he better be careful. Here, in this house, he was Brann Smith with a family on Second Street, and if he didn’t start thinking like Brann Smith he would get himself in trouble.
He stood up and offered to help Mrs. Connel...l with the dishes. She gave him a towel and passed him a glass to dry. He stood and stared at her. He’d never seen his grandmother. She died when his father was twelve—in two years this woman would die, and that would be 1939, the year Hitler invaded Poland.
“You going to dry or stare?” she demanded.
Brann had to forget about the past that was still the future. “Dry, ma’am, Mrs. Connell.”
Her hands were quick in the sink, and between them he and Kevin could barely keep up with her.MoreLess
He couldn’t get it straight, that was the trouble. Brann shook his head, to clear it. Of all the impossible, unexpected—but he better be careful. Here, in this house, he was Brann Smith with a family on Second Street, and if he didn’t start thinking like Brann Smith he would get himself in trouble.
He stood up and offered to help Mrs. Connel...l with the dishes. She gave him a towel and passed him a glass to dry. He stood and stared at her. He’d never seen his grandmother. She died when his father was twelve—in two years this woman would die, and that would be 1939, the year Hitler invaded Poland.
“You going to dry or stare?” she demanded.
Brann had to forget about the past that was still the future. “Dry, ma’am, Mrs. Connell.”
Her hands were quick in the sink, and between them he and Kevin could barely keep up with her.MoreLess
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