Plotting At the Pta (2012)
“Marina asked. “You know, about Amy and the cans of bee killer?”
“Umm . . .” It was Monday and I was leaning against Marina’s kitchen counter, watching as she plopped spoonfuls of dough onto a cookie sheet. All three kids—Jenna, Oliver, and Marina’s youngest-by-far, Zach—were outside. After Marina’s last day care kid had been picked up by a harried father, the trio had run out into the cool early evening air to play a complicated version of tag.
Marina had opened the kitchen window a few... inches, letting the shouts and laughter slip inside. It was getting close on to dinnertime, and by rights I should be grabbing the kids and heading home to start cooking, but a few more minutes wouldn’t hurt.
“Are you in there?” Marina rapped her knuckles against the air a few inches from my head. “Are you going to ask Gus, or what?”
Go back into that unwelcoming office and be greeted with an antismile?MoreLess
“Umm . . .” It was Monday and I was leaning against Marina’s kitchen counter, watching as she plopped spoonfuls of dough onto a cookie sheet. All three kids—Jenna, Oliver, and Marina’s youngest-by-far, Zach—were outside. After Marina’s last day care kid had been picked up by a harried father, the trio had run out into the cool early evening air to play a complicated version of tag.
Marina had opened the kitchen window a few... inches, letting the shouts and laughter slip inside. It was getting close on to dinnertime, and by rights I should be grabbing the kids and heading home to start cooking, but a few more minutes wouldn’t hurt.
“Are you in there?” Marina rapped her knuckles against the air a few inches from my head. “Are you going to ask Gus, or what?”
Go back into that unwelcoming office and be greeted with an antismile?MoreLess
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