Sarah Book, The by McClanahan Scott

Author:McClanahan, Scott [McClanahan, Scott]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Novel, Fiction
Publisher: Tyrant Books
Published: 2017-07-10T17:00:00+00:00

We used to do nice things for another though. One night Sarah came home crying because she’d broken an old woman’s leg. She told me all you have to do is find a 90 year old woman who weighed 85 pounds and then just move her a little bit. Then you’d see what would happen, you’d see how fragile people are. The next night she came home crying again because a guy had projectile vomited in her mouth and he was HIV positive so she was going to have to take an AIDS test. The night after that she came home and complained about this creepy patient who kept masturbating in front of her. She tried to embarrass him in front of his new girlfriend by asking to change his colostomy bag, but the mad masturbator didn’t mind. The new girlfriend didn’t either. I told her it would be alright and that everything would be fine and I decided to do something to cheer her up. I looked at the schedule she kept on the side of the fridge and then I counted the number of days she had off this weekend. 1,2,3.

It was getting warmer and winter was almost over. She’d mentioned the beach a few weeks before. So without telling her I got on the computer and I booked a hotel room. I saw the blue water inside my head and I saw Sarah happy. I found restaurants we could eat at and things we could do.

Later that night she went to the bathroom and she shut the door. I thought I heard her crying. I knocked once and then twice.

Sarah whispered, “Scott, I’m in the bathroom.” So I went away for a second but then I came back and I slid our hotel reservations beneath the door. I heard Sarah start laughing. “The beach. Thank god. If I had to spend one more day in this shit place, I was going to kill myself.”

So we got our shit together for the beach. I imagined the sand and taking pictures of ourselves. I imagined the quiet in the morning and dolphins swimming and the boats on the horizon and then the slow fade until they disappeared.

The night before we were supposed to leave, Sarah called me from work. When she said, “Hello” I could tell something was wrong. She told me that we couldn’t go to the beach and then she was quiet. I said it was okay and I asked her why and she told me that we couldn’t go to the beach because Becky’s father had a heart attack. She told me Becky needed to be with him and that there was no one else to cover Becky’s shift. Rhani was out of state and Mindy’s daughter was getting married. I told Sarah it was totally okay. I told Sarah that we could do it another time and then I told her we could cancel the hotel reservation and everything would be okay.

But everything wasn’t okay. That night Sarah came home and I could tell she was sad.

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