The Broken Teaglass by Emily Arsenault

Author:Emily Arsenault
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Literary, Mystery & Detective, Lexicographers, Fiction, Fiction - General, Mystery fiction, Massachusetts, American Contemporary Fiction - Individual Authors +, General
ISBN: 9780553807332
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
Published: 2009-09-29T08:48:37.691000+00:00

After Mona left, I decided I’d give my bedroom a try. I was growing tired of the sleeping bag setup in my living room. So I lay awake on the bed, thinking of the story I’d almost told Mona:

How are you feeling, William?

Like crap.

That’s what I figured. I brought you something.

My father handed me a video, clearly taken from the library. Little Big Man, with Dustin Hoffman.

I think you’ll like this.

Probably. But not right now, okay? I don’t feel like watching a movie right now.

I brought you something else too, William.

A pause. A sheepish look.

Yeah? What?

He reached into his sport coat and pulled out a little baggie with something fuzzy and green in it. For a moment I thought it was a little stuffed animal of some kind, and felt sorry for old Dad, suddenly rendered lame and clueless by my illness.

He shook the bag awkwardly.

It’s… uh … the wacky weed. Some say it really helps. Eases the nausea.

I laughed into my pillow until I found I was crying. When I turned to look at him, he was still standing in the doorway in the same awkward position, with the bag hanging from his hand.

Will you try it? he wanted to know.

I didn’t tell him that I had already tried it a couple of times, under very different circumstances. I didn’t ask him how a conservative and respected oral surgeon goes about finding a discreet dealer in a suburb like ours.

Only if you’ll try it with me, I told my father.

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