Spanking Shakespeare by Wizner Jake

Author:Wizner, Jake [Wizner, Jake]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780375890864
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2007-09-25T05:00:00+00:00

MARCH

My mother committed suicide on my twelfth birthday. By that time I had grown accustomed to her bouts of depression and understood that sometimes Mommy was just too sad to get out of bed. On these days, my father would tell us we had to be extra quiet, and then he would go out and not come home until very late. My brother and I would sit in front of the television with the volume turned down low, and when we got hungry I would look for food in the refrigerator or the pantry for us to eat.

When I came home from school that day, I did not even realize at first that anything was wrong. I deposited my brother in front of the television and fixed him a snack. Because it was my birthday and because Mommy had promised me a party when I came home, I knocked on her door and crept in to her room. She looked like she was sleeping, and I remember thinking how sad it was that she was sleeping on my birthday.

I tiptoed to her bed and looked at her. She was lying on top of her covers, wearing the fancy black dress she sometimes wore to church. At least she had remembered to dress up.

“Mom,” I said.

She did not answer.

I shook her gently. “Mom.”

Why wasn’t she moving? I looked around and saw two empty pill bottles on the floor.

“Mom, wake up,” I said, shaking her harder, and still she did not budge.

I started to cry and call her name over and over. My brother, frightened, rushed in and saw me, and the sight of me crying and screaming made him start to cry.

We stood there, holding each other and sobbing. When my father came home several hours later, he found us curled up in bed beside her, tear-emptied and asleep.

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