Good Day to Die
“In purgatory.
The pain of purgatory was alive in her belly. She had already given it a name; she called it Betty. After Betty Compton, who made her first-grade reputation by punching her fellow first graders in the stomach. Betty did this so often and to so many children that after a while she became a kind of force of nature. An earthquake or a volcano, to be avoided whenever possible, to be endured when there was no other choice.
Lorraine saw her hunger as a force of nature. Relentless, it ac...ted on blind instinct, pounding at her viscera until she bent over, clutching her belly, trying to push it back inside. Which didn’t make a whole lot of sense, because it was killing her right where it was. Better to let Betty out. Better to let Betty punch someone else in the stomach.
Lorraine heard the rain pound on the cabin roof and smiled bitterly. An image popped into her mind, a pompous politico in a top hat. Pronouncing the nostrum: Something Must Be Done About Betty. But there was only one something to be done and that was to find a way out of this wilderness.MoreLess
The pain of purgatory was alive in her belly. She had already given it a name; she called it Betty. After Betty Compton, who made her first-grade reputation by punching her fellow first graders in the stomach. Betty did this so often and to so many children that after a while she became a kind of force of nature. An earthquake or a volcano, to be avoided whenever possible, to be endured when there was no other choice.
Lorraine saw her hunger as a force of nature. Relentless, it ac...ted on blind instinct, pounding at her viscera until she bent over, clutching her belly, trying to push it back inside. Which didn’t make a whole lot of sense, because it was killing her right where it was. Better to let Betty out. Better to let Betty punch someone else in the stomach.
Lorraine heard the rain pound on the cabin roof and smiled bitterly. An image popped into her mind, a pompous politico in a top hat. Pronouncing the nostrum: Something Must Be Done About Betty. But there was only one something to be done and that was to find a way out of this wilderness.MoreLess
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