Glimmer As You Can by Danielle Martin

Author:Danielle Martin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: CROOKED LANE BOOKS

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Later, Tommy and his friend were engaged in a game with wires and cigarette lighters. They guffawed and cursed as pieces of the wire caught aflame, then snuffed them out between their fingers.

Elaine smelled plastic and metal burning and ran up behind them, hissing in Tommy’s ear.

“You need to stop.”

“Stop what, baby? We’re having a little fun.” He flickered his lighter and giggled. His eyes were bloodshot, with spindly veins.

“It’s dangerous. You need to stop. Maybe you could come inside and have a conversation with me and my sister, like a regular person.”

“All you’re doing is watching the news. That crap depresses the hell out of me.”

“It’s real life.” She changed to a regular tone—no more hushed hissing. His friend wasn’t paying attention, immersed in their little game.

Tommy squinted at her. “That’s life? Looking at a whole bunch of death?”

“I have a friend who could have perished in that plane, you know. She was lucky.” He didn’t respond to her; he only grunted out expletives as his fingers blistered. “Do you even care? Do you care about what’s going on?”

He paused his work with the wires. “Of course I care, baby. But I can’t think about anything like that too much, you know?”

For a moment, he looked sad, even earnest. As though things were just too much for him to handle.

His eyes were glassy and she had to turn away.

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