Run, River Currents by GINGER MARCINKOWSKI

Author:GINGER MARCINKOWSKI [MARCINKOWSKI, GINGER]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Booktrope Editions
Published: 2012-07-31T07:00:00+00:00

She'd watched the moon swim a curved path on the wall of her bedroom. She heard a muffled sob coming from the bathroom in the house on Richard Street. She'd climbed from her bed, dragging her blue blanket behind her, and followed the cries.

“Aaaaaahhh!” the howl echoed through the hallway.

She stopped short of the bathroom, seeing movement through the sliver of space between the wall and the open door. A young woman thrashed in the bathtub, her face distorted in pain. Samantha. Her mother was standing over the bathtub wiping the girl's face with a worn washcloth, a tendril of her red hair flashing across her face. Her father was sitting on the toilet swigging something from a brown bottle, cursing.

The girl clutched the sides of the bathtub, breathing in tiny spurts of air, sweating hard. Her dark hair was plastered to her forehead, her eyes streaming with tears.

Emily jumped as her mother yelled, “Push! Just one more.”

The young woman in the tub pinched her lips together, rocked forward, and pushed until pocks of blood rose to her skin's surface and burst.

“Whhhaaaaa!” The sound of a baby's cry rose into the night.

Her mother swaddled the child and placed it on the tile floor. A deep, ugly cry came from the girl, and then suddenly the room went silent. She saw her mother's face turn white. Her mother dropped to her knees and placed her right hand on Samantha's neck. Maureen turned to look at her husband and then began to sob.

Her crying scared Emily, and she, too, burst into tears. Her father turned and saw Emily standing in the doorway, his lips parted and angry.

“Get back to bed before I give you a good spanking!” he yelled.

Emily ran and climbed into her bed, leaving the door open, awaiting the force of his hand. Stephanie's bedroom door was closed. Baby Darren was still at Aunt Carol's. Emily heard the muffled sobs of her mother, saw her father carry a blanket-wrapped body down the stairs and into the night. The house went silent, except for the faint cry of a baby.

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