Late Nights on Air by Elizabeth Hay

Author:Elizabeth Hay [Hay, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary, Romance, Adult
ISBN: 9781458771148
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant
Published: 2007-09-18T04:00:00+00:00

In fairy tales there is the fairy who is not invited, the child who is not protected, the princess who is wooed by the wrong prince. These shocking moments are lifted whole into the light, drawn up out of a deep well, and there they hang, glistening and floundering, all exposed.

The first time Eddy and Dido got stoned together, Dido learned what the body electric meant: they were their own northern lights, murmured Eddy, who kept up an intoxicating riff of suggestive, explicit words as he made love to her slowly and expertly. Dido had walked away incredulous, then gone back for more. Eddy had a basement apartment on a street two blocks south of the radio station. His furnishings were meagre and provided by the landlord, but he kept it very clean. Once the weather turned cold, he’d stopped using his space in the warehouse in Old Town and moved all his transmitters and radio parts and cameras into the spare bedroom. He took photographs of Dido and developed them in the bathroom until a photographer at the local newspaper let him use their darkroom instead. He showed Dido his shots of her and pinned several to the wall. She didn’t know about the other photographs he was taking, and when she did find out—and viewed them—she made the same excuses, offered the same rationale that Eddy would.

His place had no curtains and the light that came across their bed was like moonlight from outer space. Their bodies glimmered against the sheets. Then came the early morning when she wanted to leave and he wouldn’t let her. He pinned her less than playfully to the bed. The next time he got rough with her, she got rough back, and that aroused her in a way that shook and sickened and excited her.

Dido’s confusion deepened after an interview she did—a native linguist in his fifties remembered his experience in residential school. He began to tell her in a calm voice what happened.

His mother died when he was three, he said into the microphone, and for a while he was raised by his grandparents, but one day his grandfather put him on a horse-drawn wagon and said in their language, “You are going away.” He was sent to Elkhorn, Manitoba, to a boarding school run by an Anglican mission. In school they were all warned not to speak their own language, but the day came when he had been caught too many times, and he was punished. The Anglican missionary slapped his face until his cheeks were red and hot, but he didn’t cry. Then he was told to take off his clothing, his coveralls, and he was smacked on his bare behind, and then he cried. His hands were strapped behind his back, his ankles were tied, and he was put on a tall stool and left there until he fell off the stool and messed himself. Again, he was spanked. He was ordered to fill a basin with warm water, to stir a bar of soap, cut in half, into the water, then to wash his mouth with it.

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