All the Lost Things by Michelle Sacks

Author:Michelle Sacks
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2019-06-04T04:00:00+00:00

DISGRACEFUL DISGUSTING Dad’s snoring was getting louder. His breath smelled of strong medicine. ALCOHOLIC rhymes with FROLIC rhymes with BUBONIC. That was a plague and it killed millions of people and they all got chucked onto a cart and thrown in the fire to be burned.

Dad would sleep for one million hours and I would have nothing to do all day long, not even play on his phone which was thrown into the bushes like a banana peel because that’s how ridiculous he was. I sighed loudly.

“BORING,” I said to Clemesta. “Snoring is boring.”

Dad didn’t budge.

I found the remote and switched on the TV. I turned it up EXTRA LOUD. The channels were all news and more news and commercials. I flicked back to one of the talk shows because THAT BITCH was sitting on the chair laughing with her whole mouth open. THAT BITCH used to be Mom’s best friend in Hollywood but then she went and STOLE A ROLE that Mom was meant to get. It was a famous TV show with eight seasons so far and Mom already had a contract but THAT BITCH stabbed her back with a hundred knives and took it. Now she wins prizes on award show nights and Mom glares at her through the screen trying to make her trip on her way up the stairs.

I like those nights because Mom and I dress up in her prettiest Florida dresses and she does my makeup and hair and I get to wear some of her jewelry and we pretend that we are also invited to the theater. We applaud when nice actresses win but we boo for THAT BITCH and say how ugly she is and how she is losing her looks and getting too old and also running out of boyfriends.

Dad doesn’t play the awards night game. He hardly plays any of our games. He just plays the dad. When he sees me in Mom’s makeup and sexy sparkly dresses he gets mad and says it’s INAPPROPRIATE. Mom says, “What do you know about appropriate?” and he leaves the room and sometimes the house.

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