The Acid House by Irvine Welsh
Author:Irvine Welsh [Welsh, Irvine]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
Tags: (¯`'•.¸//(*_*)\\¸.•'´¯), General, Fiction, Short Stories (Single Author)
ISBN: 9781407019376
Publisher: Random House
Published: 1994-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
SNOWMAN BUILDING PARTS FOR RICO THE SQUIRREL
The silver squirrel undulated across the yard and scuttled up the bark of the large Californian Redwood tree which overhung the rickety wooden fence. A tearful little boy in sneakers, t-shirt, jeans and baseball-cap watched, helpless in torment as the animal moved away from him.
— We love you Rico! the boy shouted. — Don't go Rico! he screamed in anguish.
The squirrel scrambled deftly up the tree. At the sound of the boy's despairing voice he stopped and looked back. His sad brown eyes glistened as he said, — Sorry Babby, I have to go. Some day you'll understand.
The small creature turned and launched itself along a branch, catching onto another, disappearing into the dense foliage of the woods behind the border of the flimsy fence.
— Mommy! young Bobby Cartwright shouted back towards the house. — It's Rico! He's going, Mommy! Tell him to stay!
Sarah Cartwright appeared on the porch and felt her chest tighten at the sight of her disconsolate son. Tears welled up in her eyes as she strode forward and held the boy to her. In a breathless, sugary voice she said wistfully, — But Rico has to go, honey. Rico's a very special little squirrel. We knew that when he came to us. We knew that Rico would have to go, for it's Rico's mission to spread love all over the world.
— But that means Rico doesn't love us, Mom! If he loved us he'd stay! Bobby screamed, inconsolable.
— Listen Babby, there are other people that need Rico too. He has to go to them, to help them, to give them the love they need, to make them realise just how much they need each other. Bobby was not convinced. — Rico doesn't love us, he whimpered.
— No Babby, that's nat it at all, sugar-pie, Sarah Cartwright simpered, — the greatest gift that Rico ever gave to us was making us remember just how much we loved each other. Remember when Daddy got paid off from the plant? We lost our home? Then your little sister, our little Beverley, was run over, killed by that drunk Sheriff? Remember how we all fought and yelled at each other all the time? Sarah Cartwright explained, tears rolling down her cheeks. Her face slowly broke into a smile, like the sun rising triumphantly over dirty grey clouds. — Then Rico came. We thought we'd lost each other, but with Rico's love, we came to realise that the greatest gift we had was our love for each other. ..
— I hate Rico! Bobby snarled, pulling away from his mother and running into the house. He mounted the stairs two at a time.
— Babby, come back .. .
— Rico left us! Bobby shouted miserably, slamming his bedroom door.
— Switch that fuckin telly oaf! Ah've telt yis before! Oot n play! Maggie Robertson snapped at her children, Sean and Sinead. — Watchin fuckin telly aw day! Daft wee cunts! she half-laughed, hay-sneered as Tony Anderson's hand slipped under her t-shirt and bra and roughly grappled her breast.
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