Coq Au Vin
“I fell asleep in my clothes. Everything—shoes, skirt, top, underwear.
I’d felt sorry for myself plenty of times before. I’d been in that valley of indecision and self-pity and regret more times than I cared to recall. It had never felt quite like this before.
It was a restless, heavy kind of sleep. Hideous dreams about everything from being lost in the play yard at age four, to facing my father with a D in my grade book, to my grandmother’s ravaging cancer.
I had told Andre on that day I checke...d out of the hotel: I bonded with another man once in this same way—all at once, and right down to the bone. It ended up terrible. Be warned, young man. Black widow Nan will get you.
I heard his key in the door.
To hell with everything else. He was back.
He had been unable to find Martine, let alone Aunt Vivian. Unable to come up with anything new. I knew that he wouldn’t. You have to let yourself hope. But I knew he wouldn’t. Still, he was safely back home. He looked like shit.
We cried in each other’s arms.MoreLess
I’d felt sorry for myself plenty of times before. I’d been in that valley of indecision and self-pity and regret more times than I cared to recall. It had never felt quite like this before.
It was a restless, heavy kind of sleep. Hideous dreams about everything from being lost in the play yard at age four, to facing my father with a D in my grade book, to my grandmother’s ravaging cancer.
I had told Andre on that day I checke...d out of the hotel: I bonded with another man once in this same way—all at once, and right down to the bone. It ended up terrible. Be warned, young man. Black widow Nan will get you.
I heard his key in the door.
To hell with everything else. He was back.
He had been unable to find Martine, let alone Aunt Vivian. Unable to come up with anything new. I knew that he wouldn’t. You have to let yourself hope. But I knew he wouldn’t. Still, he was safely back home. He looked like shit.
We cried in each other’s arms.MoreLess
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