The O. Henry Prize Stories 2018 by Laura Furman

Author:Laura Furman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2018-09-03T16:00:00+00:00

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“Love is blind indeed,” my grandmother said after they left.

“Deaf and blind,” my grandfather quipped.

But my mother didn’t say anything. She went into her room and closed the door behind her. I went after her. She hadn’t turned the light on, so I couldn’t see, but I could hear that my mother was crying. I walked over to her bed and put out my hand hoping to find and touch hers. What I found instead was her face, all wet and slippery with tears.

“Get in,” she whispered. I climbed into the bed and hugged her from behind as tightly as I could. I was crying into her shoulders, which were warm and shaking. I tried to squeeze them even tighter to stop the shaking, to console her.

I pitied her. But I loved her more than I pitied her. I loved her so much that it was hard to breathe. And another thing: at that moment, I felt close to my mother in a completely new way. Not as a child but as a fellow woman, an equal.

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