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Posted by Jai Narayan on September 17, 2004, at 20:46:26
It was a humid night on the peninsula. My sculpture class had ended. A young man from the class had asked me to meet him. I told him where I was staying and that I could be at the swing set near the graveyard. He said he’d meet me around midnight. I crawled out of the window of my room at eleven pm to meet him. I stood in the mist. Then I jumped onto the swing and swung till I was nauseous. The yard was on the corner of two quiet streets and cars would come up the street stop and keep going. I waited till one am. I was crushed. The dew was heavy on my clothes when I climbed into my room window. My mother was sitting on the bed waiting. She looked angry.
“Where have you been! What were you doing!” she said in a menacing tone.
I thought about how she had been flirting with one of the handsome art teachers. She had been out tonight. As I remembered she had been out every night. I had been home alone for my entire two week class.
“Nothing, absolutely nothing....,”I pleaded.
She burned with disbelief.
Posted by Atticus on September 17, 2004, at 23:41:49
In reply to mummy why do you burn so? your face scares me., posted by Jai Narayan on September 17, 2004, at 20:46:26
I really like the level of physical detail and description that you bring to stories like this. Telling bits of description like the dew on your dress add to the intensity of the scene by heightening its vividness. Your stories about your troubled relationship with your mother always seem to have this quality of hyper-realism to them, and the straightforward nature of the narrative tone makes the irrationality of her behavior all the more striking. A touching and unsettling story that is very effective. Atticus
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