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What Work Is
on Monday, February 18
Fixing Things
by R.A. Lopata
“My father drops his cape and fedora into Richard’s arms with a curt, 'Hello, Richie.' Tension tightens the corners of my cousin’s mouth, and I jump between the two of them.
'Richard. I’m sorry about your dad,' I say, self-conscious that it’s all I can come up with. Though the same age, we are not close, estranged somehow by our fathers’ habit of measuring themselves against each other in everything, even their children’s accomplishments where I, of course, sorely disappointed my father. ”
The Sycamore Tree
by William Hoffman
“The road weaves in your headlights. For a moment, the thought of crashing into a tree actually relieves you. You walk into a dark house; the wife and kids are long asleep. You pour yourself a drink, sit on the sofa, elbows propped on your knees. Your father used to sit like this, head in his hands, defeated. … Stretching out on the sofa, you fall into a fitful sleep, and in your semiconscious stupor, you see the gun. It is large and black and pointed at your head. You feel the bullet rip your brain.”
Cat Care
by Maggie Fay
“Often, early in the summer, Claire had an eerie, expectant sensation, working in the still, empty house, that really there was no one. She was tending an altar, clearing dried flowers from a grave and wiping down a head stone. She stood barefoot in Margo and Laure’s kitchen counting up the cans of cat food in the cupboard, the syringes and vials in the medicine drawer. She took pleasure in the order of things… She sometimes felt that Margo and Laurel had never really existed. That in truth, she was a servant of the list itself…”
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