The Sweet Relief Of Missing Children (2011) - Plot & Excerpts
This is how she greeted him. It was Jade Grant, behind the Come & Go. Paul had come here for a cigarette and found her sitting against the dumpster, her legs pulled up to her chest, a massive fountain drink between her knees. She chewed on its straw like on a piece of licorice, her pale, narrowed eyes suggesting a boredom so habituated it had become mere accessory. Her posture and baggy shirt hid her stomach. It was rumored that Jade—daughter of Thomas Grant, the abortion nurse—was pregnant. “They’re so devastatingly clean, aren’t they?” she said. “From West Liberty Baptist is my guess. Jabbering self-righteous fools. They claim they want to help. To help! The filthiest stuff comes out of their mouths, filthy, mean as hell, but they’re always showered and powdered and perfumed and I’m sure that lady douches twice a day.” Then she said, “You’re Paul, right?” So she knew his name. They had only one class together, algebra, but never spoke—she sat with Kitty and Frick, passing notes and exercising the smallest muscles of her face with various expressions of disdain.
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