Amor and Psycho Stories by Carolyn Cooke

Author:Carolyn Cooke
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: General Fiction
ISBN: 9780307962133
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 2013-08-01T04:00:00+00:00

IF SOMEONE surgically removed my memories and let me keep one, this might be it—this day—though it was probably a mistake to take him on a four-mile round-trip hike. We started in a black blanket of fog and climbed up a steep grade on a gravelly path toward blue sky. Half a mile up, Scarface was sweating. It hadn’t occurred to me that he could be out of shape. “What’s the matter?” I asked.

“I’ve got asthma and bronchitis,” he said.

“Really?”

“Yeah. And I’m obese.”

A couple wearing spandex shorts and shirts rode past us on thousand-dollar bicycles. “This reminds me of the time I climbed Masada,” one of them said.

“Hey, could I have a swig of your water?” Scarface shouted at the bicyclists. The couple pedaled faster.

“I’m just messing witchou!” he yelled after them.

I practically pushed him to the top, but we made it. I wanted this success, I thought, for Scarface. Before he filed for divorce, my ex-husband used to tell me that I always try to extract more from an experience than is there to be withdrawn.

When we reached the top, Scarface wasn’t really able to talk anymore, and by the time we’d hiked two miles back to the car, the sky was dark. I’d planned to get him home at a reasonable hour. His mother wasn’t exactly overprotective, but she was still a mother.

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