“After staying up to watch the Fourth of July fireworks from the porch, Isa and Milo had overruled me on a horror movie that I had no stomach for, and afterward I’d put down an arsenal of meds to take me out: a sedative and then the other half of a sleeping tablet and then a new half of something else. At the rate I was going, I might be finished with the pills in less than a month, but I couldn’t deal with thinking about that. I’d run across that bridge when there was no more bridge behind me. ...Meantime, I’d limit my intake of gory movies.Sleep smothered me, and I woke up with a rocks-in-the-brain side effect that seemed somewhat worse than usual. The rain’s fault, for sure. It had put a chill in the house, and a predictable damper on Connie’s mood.In the kitchen, I made a pot of coffee, and my decline of Connie’s mandatory smoothie made her extra grumbly, as she slammed drawers and muttered about the health benefits of her rejected magical berry tincture.“The thing is, I’ve got issues with blueberries,”MoreLessRead More Read Less
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