Red Ant House by Ann Cummins

Author:Ann Cummins
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Damn! Now that thread’s broken. Where’s Sam Hunt? Where’s that weasel? Run the flag. Got a problem, he says. Pull this little string. I’ll see your flag and respond. They can’t be having girls rim up and down the aisles looking for the weasel. That way if anything’s missing or disturbed anyplace in the vicinity, we’ll blame it on Betsy Ross’s ghost, he says to me. He has equipped every sewing machine in the place with a little flag. If you have to go to the bathroom, raise the flag, take your purse, don’t put it on the floor in the stall because the weasel is not responsible for stolen or lost property.

Somebody should burn that man up.

There are instances where fires occur by spontaneous combustion, and instances where water will not put a fire out. There are oil slicks on the ocean. In dreams, too—there are people burning on the ocean or in impossible places, instances where burning oil floats on water and your clothes are on fire, and your hair is on fire, and in the water the fire goes inward. If it’s dirty with oil and muck. Sometimes there’s no way to put the fire out.

In such a dream, go into a well. Make it from rocks. The bottom of the well is very smooth, and the rocks are cool. Close your eyes. Put your cheek against a rock. If you’re dizzy, reach your arm out. Touch the other side. Twirl in a circle. Put yourself in a blue well, and keep your eyes closed. Turn around and around until the fire stops.

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