Black Light by Kimberly King Parsons

Author:Kimberly King Parsons
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2019-08-12T16:00:00+00:00

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RUSS PLAYS AT DISAPPEARING. He’ll say he’s done with this rattrap, ready to pack up and get back to his mama and the opossums in the trees.

“Don’t you come after me,” he tells Suki, and Suki will say, “Huh?” because she can’t hear over the elliptical machine she rides in their living room. She calls it her horse, and she never misses a night with it.

Russ says, “Stay put, Suk.” Then he slams off and comes right back because he forgets his keys or wants his dinner.

“Gone whoring” is what Suki says this time, when two days pass, then three. “Somebody skinnier, somebody prettier,” she says.

There’s nobody like that. I ask does she want me to come stay with her? She says she feels something like carsick, like trying to sleep on your back in a rocking boat. But do I know what? she says. It’s not so bad, being alone.

“My offer stands” is what I say.

All this takes place by telephone, me at my kitchen table, Suki at hers.

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