9 Tales Told in the Dark 13 by 9 Tales Told in the Dark

Author:9 Tales Told in the Dark [Dark, 9 Tales Told in the]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bride of Chaos
Published: 2016-05-21T22:00:00+00:00

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It began when Ward started drinking again. Daniel had never known his father to be a boozer, and at the tender age of six he wouldn’t have known what a boozer was to begin with; since the day he was born there had never been any alcohol in the trailer, his father having given it up shortly before Daniel was born. And to the day he died, he never really understood what the big deal was back then (though he surmised that the alcohol must have caused his father to do careless, hurtful things to his mother in the years leading up to Daniel’s birth—God knows it did when the old man again took it up). At first there was just a noticeable tension—his mother (Sarah, a saint of a woman) would clean out her husband’s lunch pail when he came home from work and become oddly silent when she saw the depleted Milwaukee’s Best cans lying amidst the sandwich bags (which were empty of everything but crumbs from the cheap bread she used to make Ward’s sandwiches). Sometimes she would grumble under her breath or get downright angry, but it was always unprovoked. Ward would be peacefully sacked out in his chair, the evening news being broadcast quietly in the background as if Dan Rather himself was hesitant to disturb Ward Hollister after his hard day at work. (The fact that there was no provocation whatsoever led Daniel to the conclusion that some truly terrible shit must have happened in the past, horrors that his mother relived each time she saw an empty beer can.) As the days and weeks wore on and the one or two empty cans each evening turned into a dozen, she became downright furious and would walk around the house singing to herself about how “one of these days and it won’t be long” she would be gone, occasionally even giving Ward the finger when he’d so much as look at her.

The transformation was virtually instantaneous; it seemed like an overnight transition from Father Knows Best to The Hollister House of Horrors. The fighting escalated quickly, starting as an argument on Tuesday night and culminating with Sarah’s Fancy New Black Eye by payday.

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