Slap Your Sides by M. E. Kerr

Author:M. E. Kerr [Kerr, M. E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2001-02-08T13:00:00+00:00

I know I am but summer to your heart,

And not the full four seasons of the year.

You can say that again, I thought. I would have sent it to Daria if it hadn’t had that verse on it. But I shelled out two cents for it anyway. It would be a good souvenir of the trip.

When we arrived back at 57 Charles Street, we could hear from the hall a discussion between Lizzie and Mike, not meant for our ears.

“Why did she ever marry him, anyway?” Mike was saying. “She could have done a lot better than that.”

“I might have married him myself. You should have seen Efram back in those days!”

“Thanks a lot, sweetheart! What was I? Chopped liver?”

“You were my mental giant, darling. If you marry a mental giant, your marriage has a better chance of lasting than if you marry Handsome Harry.”

“Their marriage isn’t in trouble because of Efram. It’s Bud.”

Natalia shouted, “Hello! We’re home and we can hear you!”

“I’m not saying anything I wouldn’t say to Bud’s face,” Mike said as we walked into the living room. Shakespeare’s blue eyes narrowed, and his black tail flagged. He leaped from Mike’s lap and ran off with his ruff up.

“But tonight is not the night to say anything to Bud’s face! It’s my sister’s birthday,” Lizzie said.

I changed the subject. “We saw the Millay house.”

“I bet that gave you a thrill,” Mike said. His paintings were all around the room. Lizzie called him a “social realist.” He painted coal miners with blackened faces and red eyes, tenement life, factory workers, all grim scenes.

Dad said Mike was a card-carrying Communist, that he could afford to be because he’d come from a rich family. The town house Dad had led me to believe would be filled with loose living was a disappointment that way. It was red brick, well kept, its brass railing and door-knobs gleaming. Whoever else was in residence there didn’t show themselves or make noise.

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