Lost Boys by Darci Bysouth

Author:Darci Bysouth
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781771871761
Publisher: Thistledown Press
Published: 2019-07-31T16:00:00+00:00

“Did you hear the news?” I’m trying to keep my voice casual, but my brother is the one I’d needed to call.

“You okay?”

“I’m fine. But Tom Petty died.”

There’s a pause on the other end. I can hear the slow suck of Eric inhaling. His weed is medicinal now, something about a bad back and nerve pain.

“Yeah, well,” my brother says. “I was always more of a Springsteen man.”

And we talk a while longer, about Eric’s oldest son who is finally pulling a decent wage at the mill, and his daughter who is going to finish high school at the same time as her own kid, and if he could convince Karen to do the same, they’d have a real hat trick in the family.

It is a pleasant enough conversation, the kind we have these days.

But I dream sometimes. Swampy guitar while the crowd roars a blood beat, the singer pulled out of the churning mass stunned and white-faced before throwing off those who might rescue him. His eyes meet mine and my gut curls in disgust. That he is not what he is supposed to be. I wake with the guilt sitting on my chest like a cat, and I listen for my husband’s breath, slow and steady. Sh sh, it says. All things come to pass.

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