For the Relief of Unbearable Urges: Stories by Nathan Englander

Author:Nathan Englander [Englander, Nathan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Religion, Contemporary
ISBN: 9780307569516
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 1999-01-02T05:00:00+00:00

When the tree arrives, Ruchama locks the door of the workroom with Tzippy out on the other side. She told Tzippy about the tree, an extravagant and spontaneous purchase. She lied to her about the bank deposit and is not sure from where the money to replace it will come.

Tzippy bangs on the door.

“He wants to know where to put it.”

Ruchama screams through, “He knows, and you know: between the two chairs.” Ruchama is dizzy. She told Tzippy that she is locking the door because of a spate of robberies, deliverymen scouting out the businesses they deliver to and stealing everything inside. She told Tzippy that she met a lady photographer at the supply store who had her whole studio cleaned out by the bike messenger who picked up the film. She had let him linger and drink water from the cooler.

“He wants an extra two hundred dollars, Ruchama.” Tzippy is knocking again. “He says you promised him an extra two hundred dollars for delivering the tree.”

“No such thing was promised.”

“Ruchama, you open this door.”

“Give him a hundred and tell him to go away.”

“Open this door.”

“Give him the hundred and then he will go.”

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