The Rascal by Eric Arvin

Author:Eric Arvin
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Gay Mainstream
Publisher: Wilde City Press
Published: 2015-12-04T16:00:00+00:00

Ghost of a Mad Dog

Chloe drove a couple of hours out of her way to avoid shopping in Wicker. It wasn’t that she had anything against the quality of merchandise in town. All the shops were stocked with the best foods for winter storms. She took issue with the people. She knew she would get stares, both judging and stupefied, from those in town who had heard, or had possibly been on the receiving end, of Lana’s arms rage. Chloe wanted to avoid that conversation as long as possible. The fact was, she now thought everyone who climbed Bad Luck Hill to get a peek at the actress deserved whatever they got. The one consolation about her eventual trip back into Wicker for shopping would be the absence of nosy Odette. Her sister Alma didn’t talk at all, it seemed, and so Chloe would be able to get in and out of their store without problem.

Chloe was so excited for a fresh start with Jeff—until yesterday the man she had felt a growing dislike for with each passing hour—that she didn’t mind the drive out of Wicker. She imagined the townsfolk with their mouths agape as she passed them by. “What about us?” they said in her imaginings. “Come shop with us. Tell us your secrets. Let us pry.”

“No,” she was saying with a condescending half grin as she sat proudly with both hands on the steering wheel. “Fuck off.”

She had slept well the night before. She wished Jeff had come to bed with her, but that would take time. Sooner or later, they would curl up like kittens, like they did when they were first dating. Like they did when they had led an adventure tour through the Rocky Mountains. They had cuddled and curled then too. They had also purred. The memory of him around her was what had gotten her to sleep last night.

And yet… there was still that resentment in the air of the cottage. It slept with them both. Chloe knew the faces of certain invisible things. These things had no real form and only scientific definitions. Oxygen. Regret. Rage. These things were more like encompassments. They surrounded everyone all the time. Love looked like sunshine through a cracked window. Death looked like the dark in a hospital room the night before brain surgery. Resentment was the midnight glowering in the bedroom of a cabin in the woods.

Chloe found a grocery store and pharmacy in a town called Ready. Inside, it was a frenzy of people hoarding for the storm. To her relief, none of them paid much attention to her. None of them knew a thing about her, nor did they care to. She filled her shopping cart with cans of soup and boxes of cereal. She avoided meats. They would spoil if the power went off for any long periods of time. She got some cold medicine for Jeff and remembered to get food for Lana as well, though the actress had not asked it of her.

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