Home Free by Dan Wakefield

Author:Dan Wakefield
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781504026215
Publisher: Open Road Media

September was cold there, a chilly wind rattled the windows and seeped through cracks in doors and swept down the chimney with a shrill, chilling rush. They alternated drinking gin and Four Roses and stuffed down frozen pizzas with lukewarm centers, peanut-butter sandwiches on raisin bread, Hostess Twinkies, Sara Lee cheesecakes, cans of Chef Boy-ar-dee ravioli, pretzels, and potato chips … With their “meals” they drank Coke and after that they’d start passing a bottle between them and he would listen as her voice grew fuzzier, her laugh more scratchy and scary, her language more frequently punctuated with cocks and cunts and pricks and twats, until she would kick the empty bottle across the room and wrestle her clothes off, wanting him to give it to her on the floor, in the Dream House Picture Window Living Room, she would lie there heaving and waiting, waiting for him to smother as much as he could of her body, her thoughts, the sound of the wind and the echoes of other years, and he understood her need and covered her and filled her with all he could give, blotting out her hurt as best he could. Afterward they would lie there on the floor naked on the nap of the carpet, cold and not caring, not minding at all, being beyond that. No one mentioned the future because there didn’t seem to be one.

Sometimes in town to get supplies Gene would walk along the sidewalk looking at the ordinary people, the ones who were doing something or going somewhere and he wondered whether he shouldn’t think of such things, but when he tried to his mind would be like a blank movie screen and so he would just go on, back to the Dream House.

Once he stopped for a drink at the bar of The Pier and so took longer than usual getting home and Stella’s eyes were snappish.

“You don’t go getting ideas when you’re there in town, do you?”

“No,” he said. “None at all.”

Which was true.

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