Fly in the Ointment (2009)
“How had the sight of this young woman so managed to rattle me? She didn’t know who I was. And who was to say that it was Malachy’s baby? How long ago had I heard them quarrelling under the bridge, and followed them along the canal path? A whole lot longer than nine months. There was no reason to think that someone as feckless as Malachy would stick at such a troubled relationship, and she didn’t look the sort to keep her knees together very long.
But still I couldn’t put the worry out of mind. ...Something went wrong. The simple trick I’d used through all my previous upheavals had deserted me. I fretted till my brain bled. From what I’d seen, the birth could easily be imminent. Over the past year I’d managed not to go out and scour the city for my son, yet now when I read the local evening paper, my eye fell first on snippets about babies that had been born in taxis or supermarket aisles; and though there was nothing about the girl I’d seen that would lead anyone to think she was the sort to want to see the words ‘Proud father Malachy’ set into print, I took to studying the birth announcements.MoreLess
But still I couldn’t put the worry out of mind. ...Something went wrong. The simple trick I’d used through all my previous upheavals had deserted me. I fretted till my brain bled. From what I’d seen, the birth could easily be imminent. Over the past year I’d managed not to go out and scour the city for my son, yet now when I read the local evening paper, my eye fell first on snippets about babies that had been born in taxis or supermarket aisles; and though there was nothing about the girl I’d seen that would lead anyone to think she was the sort to want to see the words ‘Proud father Malachy’ set into print, I took to studying the birth announcements.MoreLess
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