No pause. Now, wait a minute—
BUT I WAS ON A ROLL
“No, Mother. We usually do
only talk about you, and obviously
not about stuff that matters….”
My eyes stung, and the words
I wanted to say tried to stick
in my throat. I coughed them out.
“I have a sister. Where the hell
is she? What’s her name?
I already know who her father
is, and how you hooked up with
Dad and all. Have you always
been that way? Don’t you ever
feel bad? I mean, for God’s sake,
how can you just keep sleeping
around, piling one guy on top
of the next? How can you just
keep making babies, then tossing
them away? How can you …?”
Right about then I noticed
she had hung up the phone.
KORTNI BAILED DAD OUT
The next morning.
They might have
just booked him
&
nbsp; and let him go,
except for a couple
of pertinent things.