After the People Lights Have Gone Off
“If the screamed accusations about last weekend’s unanswered voice mails and the apologies each of them promised never to give didn’t have an audience, then it would be like those promises weren’t even real, like the fight never happened.Meanwhile, this is a camping trip.Nevermind that they’re still forty miles from the park, and not in the same car anymore, and Jonathan isn’t crying, is not going to give that to Lucas, and the boy sitting in the little folded-out shelf of the pop-up camper park...ed longways by the curb, the soles of his shoes barely scraping the ground in a rhythm Jonathan is having problems looking away from, he’s just staring, like waiting for something to happen.Jonathan nods to the boy, gives him some of the fakest cheer ever in the history of roadside camaraderie—not the boy’s fault, any of this—and turns away, walks out to the farthest part of the pavement, where he can see the river.It’s high, rushing. From some impossible distance away, probably.MoreLess
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