The Memory of Things by Gae Polisner

Author:Gae Polisner
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781250095534
Publisher: St. Martin's Press

I wrap the towel tightly around me.

The shower was hot,

the mirror completely fogged.

I could wipe it,

and see,

but I don’t want to.

Just sit in the fog for a while and

breathe.

The call is Mom, catching me up on things. They’re working on getting home, but there’s still no word about when flights will resume.

She asks me a hundred questions: Have I seen Dad? Does he look okay? How is Uncle Matt? Has Karina come? And so on.

I answer them all and tell her about Bangor’s uncle and Jenny Lynch’s dad. All she keeps saying is “Oh my god. Oh my god.” When we hang up, I get Uncle Matt washed up for bed. I wipe his face and neck with a washcloth, change him into pajamas, and move him into his bed. I’ll leave the shower to Karina tomorrow.

I think about Karina, how she comes here every day to do this, how tiring it is, how strong she must be to do it by herself.

As I move back toward my room, I stop, hypnotized, outside Kerri’s half-open door.

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