The Resurrection of Tess Blessing by Lesley Kagen

Author:Lesley Kagen [Kagen, Lesley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: SparkPress (a BookSparks imprint)
Published: 2014-12-09T07:00:00+00:00

A Few Words on the Brink of Death

During the days leading up to the surgery, Tess acted the same way she usually does. Like she was under surveillance and she was the one doing the surveilling. She traveled from Olsen’s Market to the post office and to the Horizons Home, so the old folks could coo and fuss over Garbo the way they do every Wednesday afternoon. She waitressed. Mare Hanson was in with some breaking news. Her bladder cancer was in remission. “Until it comes back,” she’d said with a snarl. “I’m sick of all this healthy crap. Get me some fries, a Blessing burger with extra cheddar and fried onions.” Tess gave her the order on the house because she was glad that her pissy attitude had returned, no matter how short-lived.

Richie, her ALS customer, stopped in on his regular day as well. For this visit, Tess drummed up an old joke that had been a favorite of her father’s. The one about the Lone Ranger and Tonto getting into a fuss with a tribe of war-painted Comanches. Clearly outnumbered, the masked man assures his faithful companion, “Don’t give up. We can beat these Injuns,” and Tonto looks over at him and says, “What do you mean we, kemosabe?” But when Tess stopped by the table to lay the joke on Richie, she saw that he had worsened. So instead of kidding around with him, she set down his malt and rubbed his shoulders, which she wouldn’t have if she’d known it would make his wife hide her eyes in her napkin.

She also stepped up the e-mails to her medical transcriptionist sister:

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