If the River Was Whiskey (1990)
“four bills, three advertising flyers, and a death threat from his ex-son, Anthony. Anthony had used green ink, the cyclonic scrawl of his longhand lifting off into the loops, lassos, and curlicues of heavy weather aloft, and his message was the same as usual: I eat the royal jelly. I sting and you die. Bzzzzzzzz. Pat too, the bitch. He hadn’t bothered to sign it.
“Ken? What is it?”
Pat was right beside him now, peering over his elbow at the sheaf of ads and bills clutched in his hand. She’d bee...n pruning the roses and she was still wearing her work gloves. They stood there out front of the house in the sunshine, hunched forward protectively, the mailbox rising up like a tombstone between them. “It’s Anthony,” she said, “isn’t it?”
He handed her the letter.
“My god,” she said, sucking in a whistle of breath like a wounded animal. “How’d he get the address?”
It was a good question. They’d known he was to be released from Juvenile Hall on his eighteenth birthday, and they’d taken precautions.MoreLess
“Ken? What is it?”
Pat was right beside him now, peering over his elbow at the sheaf of ads and bills clutched in his hand. She’d bee...n pruning the roses and she was still wearing her work gloves. They stood there out front of the house in the sunshine, hunched forward protectively, the mailbox rising up like a tombstone between them. “It’s Anthony,” she said, “isn’t it?”
He handed her the letter.
“My god,” she said, sucking in a whistle of breath like a wounded animal. “How’d he get the address?”
It was a good question. They’d known he was to be released from Juvenile Hall on his eighteenth birthday, and they’d taken precautions.MoreLess
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