Blackout by Adam R. Shannon

Author:Adam R. Shannon [Shannon, Adam R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

I expect them to shake or slap me out of it, or worse. It had been done plenty of times before that day with the cops: by a frightened girlfriend on the floor of our filthy kitchen, then again in the back yard where I’d slipped away on a cold night. That second time, her blows were rougher, more deliberate, full of outrage and disgust. She was gone before I even made it to the house. I’ve been slapped awake by an old man in a museum, and a trucker in the bathroom of a fast food restaurant along the Turnpike. By my mother. By others I’ve wronged.

I care, I really do. I feel shame for what I’ve done to the people who made the mistake of caring about me. But they’re bit players in a bigger story.

Do you think it’s Sirius?

I don’t think it’s too serious.

I flow out to the limits of bliss and roll gently back on the ebbing tide. I laugh, and the laughter grows within me, swelling with its own life, and it emerges from me, blind and naked, and grows, and cradles me to itself, rocking me gently in laughter as wide as the wind, until eventually my life is something the laughter makes, and not the other way around.

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