Bodies of Summer by Martin Felipe Castagnet

Author:Martin Felipe Castagnet
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 2017-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

7.3

I return home by taxi so that I don’t have to bother my grandson again; he’s treating a giraffe today, not in a zoo but at the home of a private citizen. I find the house empty except for Teo, in his bed like always. I give him my good news; I force myself to stop thinking about my friend.

Teo nods and smiles. I squeeze both his hands as we talk: they’re not as cold as they were before. I tell him about my new job, about Moses, about the money I’ll be making. “What do you think of the good news?” I ask him. “They’re my pres-ents,” he tells me. We’re both happy: me to be able to spend time with my son; him, to be with his grandma. We’re interrupted by shouts from beyond the hall. Teo starts to cry. I tell him not to worry, that it’s probably the television. He covers his head with the sheet; through the thin fabric I can see his mouth hanging open, like a ghost of the new century.

I close the door and walk silently to the kitchen. Wales is sitting on the floor, against the wall. September is breaking all the dishes in the house. The voice of the kitchen computer announces how many plates remain as she shatters them against the floor: “Five soup bowls.” They are both crying and shouting nasty insults at each other, words that begin to rot before they are even pronounced. “Four soup bowls.” Moses’s kind regards will have to be relayed at another moment. “Three soup bowls.”

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