Pulling Home
“I’ll bet my last cigarette on it.”—Doris O’Brien Doris O’Brien’s sneakered feet hit the concrete with a quiet thud as she rocked back and forth in the chair that once belonged to her father. Thomas O’Brien took his coffee and The Sentinel on the front porch every evening and refused conversation or disruption of any kind until he’d finished his paper. This requiem made it difficult for his wife, a woman given to anxiety which could only be quieted by eight ounces of Beefeaters and five milligra...ms of valium.
Thomas happened to be in the middle of the business section on the night sixteen and a half year old Doris, and her boyfriend, Skip Anderhall, crossed the front porch and confessed their sins of the flesh which had left Doris in a family way. Skip wanted to marry Doris and though he could offer nothing more than a mechanic’s lifestyle, he told the elder O’Brien he could provide love and fidelity. Those words landed nineteen year old Skip in jail for statutory rape and Doris in the convent.MoreLess
Thomas happened to be in the middle of the business section on the night sixteen and a half year old Doris, and her boyfriend, Skip Anderhall, crossed the front porch and confessed their sins of the flesh which had left Doris in a family way. Skip wanted to marry Doris and though he could offer nothing more than a mechanic’s lifestyle, he told the elder O’Brien he could provide love and fidelity. Those words landed nineteen year old Skip in jail for statutory rape and Doris in the convent.MoreLess
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