Fum by Adam Rapp

Author:Adam Rapp [Rapp, Adam]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780763679538
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published: 2018-05-05T04:00:00+00:00

After she uses her basement bathroom, Corinthia lurches up the two flights of stairs to her bedroom, where she takes off all her clothes and puts on her noise-canceling headphones.

She cues up Ariel Pink’s “Put Your Number in My Phone” and lies there, on top of her covers, letting the air cool her.

She imagines dancing with Lavert Birdsong. Even though the Ariel Pink track emits a poppy jubilance, she envisions them slow-dancing at Homecoming, in the Lugo Memorial Connie and Dillard Deet Field House. A disco ball refracts spinning discs of silver light, and they are at center court, embracing, barely swaying, Lavert Birdsong’s slightly balding head pulled close, just below Corinthia’s breasts.

Corinthia wears a peach dress that fits her perfectly, and Lavert sports a handsome powder-blue tuxedo with frills and flourishes, and everyone encircles them, looking on, in less unique attire, their mouths agape, their classic tuxes and gowns appearing stiff and uninhabited. Her Lugo Memorial peers can only wish they could feel what she and Lavert are feeling.

She plays the song five times in a row, basking in her Homecoming fantasy, relishing the slow revolutions she and Lavert Birdsong make at center court of the Connie and Dillard Deet Field House, and then she falls asleep, her heart full, all her aches and pains far, far away.

She sleeps as deeply as she has in months and doesn’t dream of tornadoes, geese, or other apocalyptic phenomena.

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