True by Riikka Pulkkinen

Author:Riikka Pulkkinen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Cancer - Patients - Fiction., Family secrets - Fiction.
Publisher: Scribe Publications
Published: 2012-03-20T16:00:00+00:00

IT WAS AS if Elsa knew his thoughts. She opened her eyes and looked at him slightly reprovingly.

She let out a little sigh, light. For a moment he waited for words, blame, a reminder of something a long time ago. When it didn’t come, he asked, “Are you angry?”

“What do you mean?”

“You look irritated.”

She got up from the table, walked over to him, and took him in her arms. They stood that way for a long time without saying anything. Finally she said, “I miss the days when I had time to be angry. Now it feels like death will come before I even have a chance to cuss.”

“I’m sure you have time for one damn it. Give it a try.”

Her breath felt hot and damp through his shirt.

“Damn it,” she said gropingly, questioningly, like a child.

“Look at that. See?”

“Are you ever going to paint me?” she asked.

“I don’t know. Would you like me to?”

Lightly, as if she were talking about the end of any period of time—picking strawberries before the damp days of late summer, digging potatoes in June, while they’re still small and flavorful—she said, “I don’t know. But if you’re going to do it, you’d better hurry.”

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