The Flood Girls by Richard Fifield

Author:Richard Fifield
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Gallery Books

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At the cemetery, they stood in front of Frank’s plot.

“I haven’t seen this before,” said Rachel. “That makes me feel like an asshole.”

“I loved him,” said Jake. “He was the only man who was ever nice to me.”

They stared down at the plot; clumps of grass emerged, and dande­lions had popped up, beginning their march to take over the bare soil.

“I don’t know what to say about today,” said Rachel. “I guess I was kind of expecting it this whole time, to tell you the truth.”

Jake reached out for her hand. “You remind me of him,” he said. “Good and bad. You’ve taken really good care of me, and you don’t have to. But today you had that look in your eye.”

“What look?”

“Frank got that look sometimes. Like he wanted to burn everything down. Like he was staring past everything already and he could see the ashes.” Jake stared at Rachel until she looked at his face. “He had that look the last time I saw him.”

“I don’t want to burn anything down,” said Rachel. “I’m done with destroying things.”

“Exactly,” Jake said, and continued to hold her hand, as the sounds of a riding lawn mower began, and they both ignored it.

When they drove back through town, they saw the dog. It ignored the nonexistent traffic, and galloped across Main Street, still on the run.

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