The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories by Ben Marcus

Author:Ben Marcus [Marcus, Ben]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-42813-4
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2013-01-02T05:00:00+00:00

Yes, Dad: The name warmed her every time she used it to his face, so that she rarely used this name—or any other to his face. Instead, she signaled him. She gave directions in the way she touched him, sometimes saying, “You” and “You” when she was tired and wanted to let him know she would, all he had to do was ask, but not tonight. Tonight she wasn’t feeling well.

“But yes,” she said to her father. She was always saying yes to her father, and only when she was away from him did she wonder, Does this make sense, my father? Driving all the way to her and home again and to her again in a night, driving to where she worked and waiting for her in the lot until the morning—did her father make sense?

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