Review of Australian Fiction, Volume 1, Issue 4 by Susan Johnson

Author:Susan Johnson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Review of Australian Fiction
Published: 2013-06-30T04:00:00+00:00

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If sometimes at night now Cheryl misses her mother she never once thinks of picking up the telephone. She never once thinks of walking on her own two feet to her mother’s door and falling into her arms. She thinks instead of her father’s ghost and how she is its champion, its custodian, and how his dear voice would be stilled forever unless she, Cheryl, keeps her ears ready. It is her job, waiting for her father’s voice, waiting for him to give her advice about her mother and waiting for the expected arrival of the truck of kisses, the rattling sound of it coming down the street headed for her door, all the kisses of the world filling up the air. A kiss, a ghost, a breath against her face, the world passing, the light growing blue, dim, and nothing but herself and her father’s voice calling Chezzy, Chezzy, speaking low, bringing comfort and invisible kisses and ceaseless, unending love.

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