Gods in Alabama
“I knew Rose Mae Lolley would be back, and I didn’t want to be home when she turned up. I would have to lie to her, and I wasn’t ready. I wasn’t even sure I remembered how.
I passed the morning grading papers and fretting. My office was a windowless cube I shared with two other Ph.D. candidates, but this early in the day I had it all to myself. I called Burr twice at home, but he didn’t pick up. At nine I tried his direct line at work but landed in voice mail.
I had been born and mostly ...raised in the South, so I ought to have been able to find a way to reach him. Southern girls are trained from birth up that the way to a man’s heart is never through the front door. They may leave a basket of cookies there, and while he’s busy picking them up, they’re squirming in through a back window. My cousin Clarice would have had him on his knees by now, trying to peel her a grape. But somehow I missed those classes in girl school, or I didn’t get the gene.MoreLess
I passed the morning grading papers and fretting. My office was a windowless cube I shared with two other Ph.D. candidates, but this early in the day I had it all to myself. I called Burr twice at home, but he didn’t pick up. At nine I tried his direct line at work but landed in voice mail.
I had been born and mostly ...raised in the South, so I ought to have been able to find a way to reach him. Southern girls are trained from birth up that the way to a man’s heart is never through the front door. They may leave a basket of cookies there, and while he’s busy picking them up, they’re squirming in through a back window. My cousin Clarice would have had him on his knees by now, trying to peel her a grape. But somehow I missed those classes in girl school, or I didn’t get the gene.MoreLess
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