Director Of The World And Other Stories by McCafferty Jane

Author:McCafferty, Jane [McCafferty, Jane]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780822978879
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 1992-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

Director of the World

You can pretend when your father comes home from the war he’s all right, same as he’ll pretend same as your mother will pretend. First, the big supper!

She got in her apron, wore it like the miniskirt, tied the sash tight, put on nylons, high heels, nothing else, just the apron with the fruit that’s the wrong color meaning oranges are grape and vice versa, someone’s humor we don’t need it.

He’s with his keys, we don’t know what they go to, there are fifty-two of them altogether, only I know because only I counted, it was night, they were over my head. All he wanted to do was cry, that was how it had to be. He said to her, you get out of bed so I can cry in peace. Get out of my dream. Out! Really loud, you would think to yourself, the neighbors.

Right over my head so on the gray couch looking at the ceiling I thought they might crash on through, would they be bare, I wouldn’t want to see, I’m not like the others, especially the ones who do it, and they do it in the outdoors, for instance in a parking lot, even though I would say, “There’s broken glass and you’ll get cut.” Once a girl said she likes it, the getting cut part, by the name of Yolanda Finch, not a lie.

You can still be a child, for instance, you can say no, I don’t think I’ll grow up yet, then you think it so hard, it works, and you go to a movie and get the child rate maybe all your life hunching.

And sometimes you can feel like saying to your mother that you don’t like the world, so this way she’ll say drink some milk, take a nap, or make a joke and say the world don’t like you either but don’t you already know that.

In the mornings you all sit at the white table, the kitchen seems full of fog, there should be a horn, she looks all right in her nightgown, he wears his underwear, calls them drawers and maybe his shoes on too, maybe even combat boots depending on his mood, you think to yourself I’m not inviting friends over anymore and your mother makes the joke, What friends?

There are all those times when you forget who you are. It can be like you’re the impersonator and they’re paying you, you can convince so many that you are yourself.

So she’s standing at the stove frying eggs which he loves so we think, when all the sudden he says “Tell me why you’re cooking eggs.” She turns around and says, For breakfast Silly, smiling but it’s the crying tone now.

Also outside there is yelling. The bottle breaker likes the morning and to say Somebody Somebody. Like a rooster it could wake you, we’re not on a farm, you can go to the windows press your forehead and see the bottles breaking. You might want to go to a farm for health, a little air.

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