Racket by Lisa Moore

Author:Lisa Moore
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Breakwater Books Ltd.
Published: 2015-10-31T16:00:00+00:00

I must have been back about a week, down to Sobeys in the new mall, and who do I see but Jeremy.Wearing the green apron and stacking the fruits and vegetables. Mother never goes to Sobeys. She’s at the Co-op every Tuesday, rain or shine. Same as always. I came home and said he’s up there working, and she nodded. I said it was the baby that killed Margaret, drove her to it all those years ago. Mother shook her head with a queer look, and turned away. I was supposed to leave her alone then. But I didn’t, and finally she said yes, it was the baby.

Jeremy’s there every day, always on the move and ordering the rest of them around. If you ask him, he’ll still price your fruits and vegetables the old-fashioned way. Put them on the scale, and watch the scale with one eye closed. Do the math in his head and write the price in a big black marker. You can add one more banana or take away a carrot and he’ll do it again. Give you the new price in a flash. Do it in his head. He still lives with his grandparents and walks home at the end of the day, up behind the mall. But he doesn’t walk. He runs. Every day he’s out the door and off like a shot. The other night I was out on Bennett Drive, and he flew right by me with a big grin on his face and the yellow hair bouncing in his eyes. Not much weight on him, and the one foot still turned nearly sideways. But he can motor.

The highway’s long since paved over. You’d never know anything happened. People are always getting killed and they just clean it up and carry on. There was a feller killed the other day out around Springdale. It was on the news. They showed the wreck. Big old F-150. Someone was on crying and saying what a fine young man he was. Makes you wonder what kind of mess he got himself into before the accident. He’s probably better off. They’re all better off.

I went in for a check-up last week. They made me stay all day and shot the enema into me and did the x-ray. At the end of it they said I got a black spot right down below. I said how big is it, and the doctor said it’s small. As big as a dime? No, he said, not even that. I’m going back on Monday and they’ll know what it is.

Jeremy will be twenty-two in the fall. Older than Margaret. She was a couple of weeks short of twenty-two when Nate Cumby’s Camaro went off the highway. That’s a long life for someone in his condition. The doctor said so when he was born, that the best they could expect was a few years. He’s well past that now. He’ll slow down, and then his body will go just like that. It’ll take him in a hurry.

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