Futures Past by Anthology

Author:Anthology [Anthology]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-04-29T00:00:00+00:00

MO WAS BACK, in a hurry.

“What is it, Dad? I’ve never seen Bill so upset”

“I don’t know. Things are just so mixed up. In fact, they’re wrong”

“What do you mean, wrong? I’m really worried about you now, and so’s Bill.”

I’ve never been a whiner, even in the worst of times.

“Oh, Dad,” she said. “Maybe you should go see Doc Adams, maybe get some tests done. See if he can’t recommend someone . . .”

“You mean, like I’ve got Alzheimer’s? I don’t have Alzheimer’s! It’s not me, it’s the world that’s off the trolley. Yesterday—I don’t know, it’s like everything I thought I knew is wrong. It’s like some Mohorovic discontinuity of the mind. Nixon was president. He had to resign because of a break-in at the Watergate Hotel, the Democratic National Headquarters, in 1972. I have a bumper sticker somewhere: “Behind Every Watergate Is A Milhous.’ It was the same bunch of guys who set up Kennedy in 1963. It was ..

I started to cry. Maureen didn’t know whether to come to me or not.

“Are you thinking about Mom?” she asked.

“Yes,” I said. “Yes, I’m thinking about your mother.” Then she hugged me.

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