Light From a Distant Star
“WITH WORD AROUND town that Peck Hardware was as good as closed, a good day might mean ten or fifteen dollars in sales. Some days there were none. Business was also slow at the beauty shop. Many of her mother’s clients were away on vacation. Or maybe, she worried, they’d gone elsewhere. And now without rent from the apartment, things were going from bad to worse. Yesterday her mother had had to borrow money from Ruth for the electric and telephone bills. Her father had spent the previous weekend... painting the apartment, and at her mother’s insistence, he’d even put down new vinyl tiles in the kitchen. Not that there was anything wrong with the old floor other than its violation by death. The apartment was ready, her father said, so now they could put an ad in the paper. They were eating dinner as the conversation went back and forth across the table. As soon as Ruth finished eating, she ran up to her room. Her friends were picking her up soon for a pool party. Every time Henry wiped his mouth, he spit more broccoli into the napkin, but Nellie was the only one who’d noticed.MoreLess
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