Discovery by Radclyffe & Stacia Seaman
Author:Radclyffe & Stacia Seaman [Radclyffe & Seaman, Stacia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781602824386
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books, Inc.
Published: 2008-09-09T22:00:00+00:00
Claiming the Angel - JD Glass
JD GLASS lives in the city of her choice and birth, New York, with her beloved partner. When sheâs not writing, sheâs the lead singer (as well as alternately guitarist and bassist) in Life Underwater, which also keeps her pretty busy. Her novels include Punk Like Me, Punk and Zen, Red Light, and American Goth from Bold Strokes Books.
Claiming the Angel
JD Glass
These are the things that go down hard. In these last few weeks work has been changing, home has been changing. Weâre working the same shifts, weâre working split shiftsâit seems like weâre never not working. And something else is changing, too: you. In these same last few weeks, I see the way they look at you, our coworkers, our peers, the way everyone responds to your smile, their gazes lingering as you walk by. And I see too what they want.
They want you, and you donât know it. Youâre mine, but others want you. I hate that the only thing I have for you lately is snappy jokes or sharp retortsâbecause in these last few weeks of overwork and undersleep, of not enough âusâ and too much of everything else, Iâve forgotten how to speak.
But Shannon hasnâtâand she makes you smile. Oh, itâs not the same smile, not the one you had for me, but all the same, itâs something I canât seem to do lately.
What I can do, what Iâve been very successful at, is eliciting the surprised snap of shock and hurt in your eyes before you shrug it off. I think youâre turning off to me, I think Iâm pushing the buttons to do it.
The other day at dinner with your family you said something, the sort of thing youâre likely to say, and I shot you down, another quick joke, another bitter smile.
Your cousinâs dark appraisal under raised eyebrow said more to me than a thousand words ever couldâand mute again, I couldnât even apologize. I wanted to.
I think your family hates me.
Even mine has noticedâI ran into my brother Pat today after that call, outside the ER entrance where so many emergency vehicles parked it seemed like a tailgate party.
âSo how you guys doinâ?â he asked after the usual catch-up are-you-okay inquiries and the squaring away of details that always follow these sorts of incidents. âAnything, uh, going on?â
Weâd been so busy, Iâd forgotten about even that, and the combination of concern and awkwardness in his question seemed to me the perfect reason to make yet another one of my dumb jokes, at my expense, at yours, about the whole thing. Thatâs a lieâI didnât even think about itâI just answered.
Pat stared for a moment, as shocked at me as I was. âBaby girl, youâre fucking up,â he told me quietly.
Anger and remorse made something squirm painfully under my ribs. âI know.â
âYouâre gonna lose her if you keep this up.â
âI know,â I answered again. âIâm handling it.â
âYou better,â he warned, âbecauseââhe nodded, and not twenty feet away where
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