Ways to Disappear Stories by Victoria Lancelotta

Author:Victoria Lancelotta
Format: epub

Rain, pocked gray water and cold sand, wind enough to shake the pier apart. The wearying summer stumbled and we pulled damp sweatshirts from the back corners of our dressers, waited for Heather’s mother to warm milk in a saucepan and shave chocolate into it.

Where are my socks? Heather crowed, stomping through the trailer, and her father looked up from his tackle box, open on the kitchen table. Good lord, flower, it’s not that cold, he said, and Heather flung open the hall closet doors, muttering.

Oh you know what they’re all in a huff about, her mother said, while her father made a show of checking his watch and I curled myself into a corner of the sofa.

As a matter of fact I do, he said, winking at his wife, I think they’ve got about fifteen days and fourteen hours until homeroom. That sound about right? and Heather’s mother laughed. That sound.

He had never mentioned that night, never acknowledged having seen me watching no matter how hard I wished, no matter how I lingered at the kitchen counter shucking corn while he sorted his spinnerbait at the table and the bay pulled the sinking sun into it.

I could not look at him without seeing, without wanting, and he knew. I ached and he knew, I could not breathe and he knew.

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