Blue Hole Back Home by Joy Jordan-Lake

Author:Joy Jordan-Lake [Jordan-Lake, Joy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Historical
ISBN: 9781410422743
Publisher: David C Cook
Published: 2008-03-01T05:00:00+00:00

And over and over again that night, as I stumbled toward sleep, I slipped into faded dreams of Stray’s silky ears across Jimbo’s thigh. Of the screech of Em’s truck tires on Seventh Street as we tore away from gunfire and hailing streetlights.

I tried counting sheep, and then ticks of the Blue Hole’s rope swing with nobody on it. But then there was Mort’s face leering from the top of the sweetgum.

I tried smelling the sunbaked hemlock and decaying wood of the Hole, but I smelled instead the exhaust of the good Reverend Riggs’ El Camino as he, one foot on the running board, one foot on the road, straddled, indecisive, his intention to go.

As I crept closer to sleep, I saw Farsanna and me laughing and eating ice cream. And then came truck headlights like battering rams.

And I was reminded again that maybe things were worse than we thought, than we’d any of us been willing to say.

Those last words of hers swelled in my mind and wouldn’t leave room for sleep: No place on earth is paradise.

There was more, I was sure, that she hadn’t told me. Something more that had happened out there on the road.

No place on earth is paradise.

That’s what I heard, propped up beside her against the pillows, both of us leaning a little in towards each other, staring down the blank face of the night. And that’s what I heard as I finally fell toward a sleep that was like tumbling down the slope toward the Hole: Paradise … I miss my home, Turtle … No place on earth …

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