The Other Side of Freedom by Cynthia T. Toney

Author:Cynthia T. Toney [Toney, Cynthia T.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Write Integrity Press
Published: 2017-10-09T07:00:00+00:00

Sal awoke in the chair where he’d sat during the praying of the rosary. The front room’s screen door tapped against the doorframe in the night breeze. Papa always checked it before bed on hot nights when the wood door remained open. Sal got up and hooked the latch.

Mama lay asleep on the couch, her rosary on the floor. One curl of hair clung to her damp cheek.

Sal removed the coverlet from Mama and Papa’s bed and placed it over her. It held Papa’s smell of straw and soap and cotton shirts. Maybe that would give Mama comfort, but it made Sal want to cry.

Light shone from the kitchen, so the electricity must’ve returned. Uncle Enzo might be up already.

But no aroma of coffee greeted Sal. The clock’s hands showed three in the morning, too early even for Uncle Enzo. Sal turned off the light and headed to their room.

He slipped out of his clothes and shoes as quietly as he could. Clouds moved across the sky and uncovered the moon. Its light poured across the front yard, through the tall windows, and touched their beds.

Uncle Enzo was gone.

And so was the car.

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