Tiny Love by Larry Brown

Author:Larry Brown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Published: 2019-01-16T16:00:00+00:00

BIG BAD LOVE

Part I

Falling Out of Love

Sheena Baby, the one that I loved, and I were walking around. It was late one evening. All the clouds had gathered up into big marshmallows and mushrooms, and it was an evening as fine as you could ask for except that we had two flat tires on our car some miles back down the road and didn’t know where we were or who to ask. Besides this main emergency, I knew things weren’t right. We were about ready to kill one another, and I’ve spoken on this subject once before.

Sheena Baby was LOVE, a sex-kitten goddess. I’d loved her for a long time, ever since I’d gotten rid of Miss Sheila, and I felt like I’d given part of myself away. Sheena Baby didn’t hurt for me like I did for her. I knew it. I’d thought about shooting her first and me second, but that wouldn’t have done either one of us any good. It wouldn’t be nothing but a short article in some paper that strangers could read and shake their heads over, then turn to the sports. Love goes wrong. It happens every day. You don’t need to kill yourself for love if you can help it but sometimes it’s hard not to.

If we’d had inflated tires I could’ve got her off over in the woods somewhere, put some Thin Lizzy on, told her how we could work it out. Told her not only to be my baby but to be my only baby. Later, in the dark, we could have moved together. But she didn’t love me, and I could see that finally. So I decided to be real nasty to her.

I said: “You just don’t want to listen to anybody.”

She said: “I’ve bout had it with your goddamn mouth.”

“Jam it,” I said.

“Kiss my ass,” she said.

“Make it bare,” I said, hoping she would, but she didn’t, and we walked off in different directions.

I didn’t know why something that started off feeling so good had to wind up feeling so bad. Love was a big word and it covered a lot of territory. You could spend your whole life chasing after it and wind up with nothing, be an old bitter guy with long nose and ear hair and no teeth, hanging out in bars looking for somebody your age, but the chances of success went down then. After a while you got too many strikes against you.

I didn’t know what to do, where to go. We were miles and miles from any town, anybody who might have flat-fixer services and could perhaps send a tow truck. I could see myself walking for days, sleeping in the ditches. I knew the first man who came along would pick her up, but I doubted that the first woman who came along would pick me up. I turned around and looked at her. Sheena Baby was getting smaller in the distance with each step, and I could see that fine ass she had wobbling.

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