Stories of Breece D'J Pancake by Breece D'J Pancake

Author:Breece D'J Pancake [D'J PANCAKE, BREECE]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction / Short Stories (Single Author)
ISBN: 9780316252324
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2013-02-26T00:00:00+00:00

Tyler watched from the porch as his wife passed under the shadows of maples along the riverbank, their foliage making lace of the rising moon across the river. He had lost the prize and the child in the same day, and grew bitter about her spells. “Hey, Jackie,” he called, waiting for the tenant to shuffle out to the yard.

“Whut?” The tenant almost screamed from in front of his shack.

“C’mon an’ have a drink.”

By the moss-softened locks, Reva stared at two moons, one hanging quietly above Ohio, the other broken by the slow current of the river. Mosquitoes buzzed about her ears, taking blood from beneath her tender scalp, but she did not move. Upstream, a deer’s hoof sucked in the soft mud, but Reva kept watching the swimming moon—the same moon she knew Clinton watched with his Cincinnati whore. She felt her belly for the child that had never been, and almost wanted the deed undone, even forgotten.

Across the river, a tiny fisherman’s-fire danced, and sometimes she thought she could smell its smoke. She stood up, her joints popping from sitting in the dew too long, and traced the carvings in the tree with her cold fingers; felt all that was left of her family: L.C. N.C. ’67.

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