The Ice At The Bottom Of The World (2013) - Plot & Excerpts
Powell was over early. Louise Doodlum was just taking up Bill’s plate of birthday breakfast that he missed coasting south through the South China Sea. So, how was Antarctica? Powell asks Bill, warming him up for what lay ahead, and Bill says, Hot! We go in their summer, he says, for the ice to break up. Louise Doodlum looks at Powell over Bill’s shoulder with what is left of the birthday breakfast, the toast rims, the chicken legs, the blue potato gravy. Powell knew how he came out around Miss Louise, always being That Man, like, That Man this and That Man that, like, Lisa Lee, how can you have it up in you to let your car be seen in front of That Man’s trailer home so early Sunday mornings, with Tommy John around and what people say, Miss Louise not to Powell’s mind giving him any credit for in fact being the one whose hands shake and throat bobs at the whine of the downshifted Suzuki, missing sleep, listening through Lisa Lee’s snore for her husband’s motorcycle outside his door.
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