Knucklehead by Adam Smyer

Author:Adam Smyer [Smyer, Adam]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook, book
Publisher: Akashic Books
Published: 2014-03-25T04:00:00+00:00

Entreat me not to leave you

Or to turn back from following you;

For where you go, I will go,

And where you lodge, I will lodge.

Your people shall be my people,

And your God, my God.

Where you die, I will die,

And there will I be buried.

The Lord do so to me, and more also,

If anything but death parts you and me.

At the time, that was what it felt like. It was comforting. This extremely capable woman was with me. She refused to not be with me. It was like our own little 90-mph lesbian wedding.

Her street was empty. I parked right out front; she pulled into the driveway. She opened the door of her little house and four dogs came charging at me and I think it wasn’t so much that I froze with fear as it was that, if I was about to be mauled to death, I wasn’t going to make it worse by going out like a punk. But her dogs loved me. I was already in the pack somehow. I didn’t even like dogs back then.

She played her guitar for me and we talked and snuggled and even watched TV on the couch like an old married couple. We went to bed around 2:00 a.m. We didn’t talk about it. We just went to bed. Fell asleep with her head on my chest.

* * *

I woke up. It was still dark. It must have been the disorientation of a strange bed, and I guess I was still half asleep, but for a moment it was 100 years ago and we were in Missouri. I didn’t think it; it was. I was a farmer. Sarah had been my wife for decades. It was pitch black and dead quiet and there wasn’t another human being for miles. And we were content.

I told her about it over breakfast.

“We were together in a past life. At least one.” She crunched on her toast.

That was how it started.

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