The Book of Queer Saints: Horror Anthology by Murray Mae & LaRocca Eric & Piper Hailey & Koch Joe

Author:Murray, Mae & LaRocca, Eric & Piper, Hailey & Koch, Joe [Murray, Mae]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-03-29T00:00:00+00:00

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At 3:25 I'm parking my Ford Taurus in Diana's driveway. It's a long one-story brick ranch with a walkout basement and baskets of petunias along the porch. Diana's mom is an ER nurse and works long hours. She usually has one of Diana's grandma's over to—I don't know— watch her ? Diana says her mom's got trust issues, only it's not Diana she doesn't trust. It's the world. She doesn't have to explain it to me though. I remember Tommy and how things changed after he went away. Granny Maeve is always saying how the trouble with Tommy is he was always messing around with things that didn't concern him. And why go looking for trouble? He's big and Black and Indian. Trouble's always gonna find him on its own. We'll be for real grown by the time Tommy gets out.

I walk in the front door and set a bakery box of muffins on the counter, two chocolate and two blueberry.

“Hi, Granny Maeve!” I call out so that she can hear me over the sound of the game show she's watching.

“Ashley! Aaniin! ” Granny Maeve calls back to me as she raises herself from an armchair. “What are you two up to this afternoon?”

Diana appears out of the hallway. She's wearing an oversized sweatshirt that it's much too hot for. I'm not surprised—she still hasn't told anyone. Well, no one except for the kid's dad.

Me, I was there when she peed on that damn stick. I held her hand as we watched a little plus sign appear like a reverse magic trick. She took three more pregnancy tests before it sunk in. Then she crumpled against me as if I were hollow and she could crawl inside for safety. It was the softest I'd ever seen Diana. And I'll be honest, it scared the shit out of me.

She grabs a muffin from the box and tugs at my elbow. “Homework, Granny! We gotta go,” Diana says, hustling me out of the kitchen.

“C'mon. I figured it out,” she whispers to me.

This? This is the Diana I know. And it?

That would be her plan for retribution.

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