Saga Boy by Antonio Michael Downing

Author:Antonio Michael Downing [Downing, Antonio Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Canada
Published: 2021-01-19T00:00:00+00:00

IV

Soon after Junior left, Hailey and Al lost the house in Scarborough and we all had to move out. No one explained anything to me. They just packed me into that same forest-green Cadillac DeVille and dropped me off at my brother’s basement apartment.

“We have to take a trip,” Al said, as if that explained why he was sending me away. A trip to where? I thought, but the words died on my tongue. “You gotta go live with your brother, kid.” He shrugged. He was wearing his tight work pants, but his face had not been shaved for weeks.

None of my books, guitars, amps, mics, magazines, posters, or tapes came with me. All the things that gave me security were gone. I was tossed, barely clothed, into the rough Scarborough wilderness to fend for myself.

Despite the horror of living with them, I was terrified by the thought of facing the world without the safety of my room to hide in. I had not realized how much I hid behind my ability to create music in my sanctuary beyond the reach of my parents’ chaos.

“Just for a little while, kid,” my father said. Then he and Hailey, who was wearing a big-collared striped shirt with the chest buttons undone, rolled off slowly into the watery sun.

It would be five years before I saw Al again. Hailey disappeared from my life forever.

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