The Greatest Show by Michael Downs

Author:Michael Downs [Downs, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 2012-02-15T05:00:00+00:00

From California, Howard sent packages with money. He sent Polaroid photographs. He wasn’t a letter writer, and long-distance cost too much. Instead he recorded himself on a cassette tape, and he and Karen mailed it back and forth. Karen would take the tape player and lie on her bed to listen—sometimes cuddling with Chryssie, sometimes alone. She listened to the same recording twice, three times. The voice that haunted the apartment was not Howard’s, but a robot’s, full of clicks and scratches, careful and distant, unlike what they remembered and too much like it. This voice tried to assure Karen, and she listened over and over as if waiting for the assurance to take hold. “I’m making a bundle out here, you wouldn’t believe it,” he said. “In California, sweet girl, the sun shines, and you can buy Coors, and the Raiders are on TV all the frickin’ time.”

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