The Sky Isn't Visible from Here by Felicia C. Sullivan

The Sky Isn't Visible from Here by Felicia C. Sullivan

Author:Felicia C. Sullivan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Workman Publishing
Published: 2008-01-01T00:00:00+00:00


Desperate Creatures

BROOKLYN 1987

ONCE, MY MOTHER CLAMPED down so hard on my nose, tugging until my shirt was covered with drops of my blood, that I had to lean my head back, breathe through a wad of toilet paper. Playing noogies, she called it. Other times she hugged me so hard it seemed she was trying to bury me in her. I could feel her ribs against my face and hear her jaw clicking from the spearmint gum she chewed. She held my head against her chest so tightly that I couldn’t move. And I realized then that my mother could put me on pause, still my breath if she wanted to. I waved my arms, shouted into her smock that I couldn’t breathe. It was only then that she let me go.



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