Fools: Stories by Joan Silber

Author:Joan Silber [Silber, Joan]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2013-05-12T16:00:00+00:00

We were going by ship from California, and we had to send everything in trunks and crates. What was the weather like? Like here in the rest of Japan but warmer in Okinawa. And I read that the Japanese believed theirs was the only country that really had four seasons, which seemed sweet of them. I was sorting out which books to give to Ruthie when Ted came into the room, shouting, “I don’t believe it!” Papers had come with an official seal: Ted had a security clearance to reside on the base, but family member Louise Buckman Pfeiffer was refused one.

“Did you know about this?” I wailed.

I’d never heard of such a thing. But what, really, had I heard of?

“Maybe I can get work as a janitor in your bakery,” Ted said grimly.

I hated the goddamn government. My parents were right. Had always been right. “You should go without me,” I said. I was angry with Ted for having wanted to go in the first place. “You should just go as if you really were in the army.”

Ted was hugging me. “You’re the most amazing person.” We were both sticky from the summer heat, and the scent of his skin was such a sharp, familiar smell as he held me.

He was ready to get on the ship to Japan without me, and he thought I was noble. I felt crazy.

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