Russian Dolls by W. P. Kinsella
Author:W. P. Kinsella
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: boarding house, novel, short stories, vancouver, writer, muse, lower east side
ISBN: 9781550506976
Publisher: Coteau Books
âWhat about Las Vegas?â I asked.
âWe actually went to live there,â said Christie.
âMother went there a couple more times, but she left us enough money to get by, then the last time she had enough to hire a housekeeper to look after us and she was gone for two weeks. She came back smiling with a wad of hundreds, enough for us to rent a better apartment, get food and clothing. She said she had a wealthy boyfriend.
âThen one day this white stretch limo pulls up in front of the building, a man and a woman, both in chauffeur uniforms, came in and helped us pack our clothes and possessions. They made some phone calls, a truck came and picked up our boxes. Then we all got in the limo and we drove for two days to get to Las Vegas, stopped at nice hotels, ate in good restaurants. We stopped in front of a big two-storey house in a gated community, somewhere on the outskirts of the city. The fridge was stocked when we got there, our boxes were unpacked, there were bathing suits laid out for us. There was a huge private pool. We all thought weâd died and gone to heaven.
âFor the longest time we never saw the guy. Mother wouldnât discuss him, just said, âEnjoy the good life.â He always sent the limo for Mother, usually after we were all in bed. The female chauffeur would baby sit us. Her name was Carmen, and she had huge dark eyes. If mother stayed away overnight, Carmen would get in the pool and play with us, sheâd take us for a walk to a 7-Eleven store and buy us treats.
âWhen I asked Mother about the boyfriend, she said his name was something that sounded like Sudsey, and that he ran a trucking company, a very big trucking company. Me and the oldest boys went to school, we made some friends, pushed our horrible past to the backs of our minds.
âWe were there like three years, then one day everything blew apart, literally. It was July, Mother had stayed overnight and Carmen had made us waffles for breakfast. One of the boys pointed out a huge spiral of smoke and flames in the sky in the city. Then the phone rang and Carmen rushed to our bedrooms and started putting out clothes for us, and for Mother. A few minutes later Mother arrived in a taxi. âSomething terribleâs happened. We gotta get out of here.â Just then two black cars with tinted windows pulled up. Four guys in black pants and loud shirts got out and moved toward the house. âTheyâre gonna kill us,â Mother said. âNot you kids. Me and maybe Carmen.â
âWe were in the laundry room at the back of the house. Mother was a tiny woman. âNo use running,â she said. She looked at the clothes dryer, opened it and began to force herself inside, stopped and got out, opened the outside door, returned to the dryer.
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