The Book of Why by Nicholas Montemarano

Author:Nicholas Montemarano
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2013-01-07T16:00:00+00:00

Children went room to room that night, singing carols.

I lay in bed, shaken by what the man had said. But the pill, years after having expired, was working. Maybe it was just the placebo effect. Either way, the anxiety moved from my chest to my arms and legs, then floated up from my fingers and toes to the ceiling, a yellow shadow waiting for the drug to wear off so it could begin its descent back into my body while I was sleeping, or in the morning, or during my talk the next day, or when I returned home to Cary and what was growing inside her, the thing I had feared all along. It didn’t matter when; it would hover above me patiently, and then it would descend.

The drug sang to my blood: an old song, but I knew the lyrics. Sad, but sung sweetly, that was all that mattered. The music moved outside me, then a knock on my door: children singing about a babe in a manger, stars brightly shining, our dear Savior’s birth. The carolers wanted me to join them; they handed me the words, but I didn’t need them: some things you never forget. I would like to say that I sang—it’s true that my mouth moved and made sounds—but it wasn’t my voice; it was the drugs swimming through my blood and nestling in my brain.

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