Miao Dao by Oates Joyce Carol

Author:Oates, Joyce Carol [Oates, Joyce Carol]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Horror
Published: 2018-09-27T04:00:00+00:00

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A few weeks later Mia’s mother and Pharis Locke were married .

A small private wedding ceremony. Not in a church but in the local courthouse, in the office of a justice of the peace. Quasi-secret, as Mia’s mother wanted it.

“Now you kids have a new ‘dad.’ One who really cares about you.”

Was this so? Mia hated to think yes , maybe. For the original “dad”—Daddy—had faded from their lives like one of those sunsets that begins slowly, emblazoning the sky with a fiery light, but ends abruptly, a sudden dimming—then out .

Mia’s father was always promising to fly east to spend some time with his children he was missing “like crazy.” Or, suggesting that the children fly to Seattle to spend some time with him and the (new) wife. Except there was never the right time convenient for everyone.

(For a while Mia had haunted the [new] wife’s Facebook account, fascinated that the [new] wife with the silly name “DeeDee” resembled Mia’s mother as she’d looked, judging from photos, twenty years ago. But she’d lost interest, “DeeDee” was just too boring posting reports of her pregnancy.)

(And if/when “DeeDee” had a baby was this baby supposed to be Mia’s half sister or brother ? Mia’s lip curled in disdain.)

Embarrassing as a half sibling might be it was more embarrassing that Mia’s mother was getting (re)married—Mia couldn’t bring herself to tell her friends at school. One more reason why she was drifting away from her friends. Or maybe her friends were drifting away from Mia.

Why do you need them? You don’t. You have me.

Warm against the side of Mia’s leg, or her arm, sometimes curled up on the pillow beside her head, the little white feral kitten slept every night in Mia’s bed. Mia would have been lonely with her mother away on her honeymoon—(a week in Sarasota, Florida on the Gulf of Mexico)—except for Miao Dao who purred even in her sleep to comfort Mia.

Why do you need them? You don’t. You have me.

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