Two Or Three Things I Forgot To Tell You - Plot & Excerpts
A TINK TALE: “BAILING OUT” There was no reason. There were many reasons. There came the razor blade between my fingers. There came the current like electricity through my arm—through my fingers—directing the blade into the soft, yielding flesh of the inside forearm. Why doesn’t matter. How requires precision. Big Moms had hope for me, she said. As she had hope, still, for herself. Hel-lo! I am Veronica Traumer and this is my little daughter, Katrina. Say hello, Katrina, c’mon, let’s see that dazzling smile. Oh, where is that dazzling smile? (That goddamned dazzling smile—WHERE IS IT?) It was a fact: There were secrets in Veronica Traumer’s life—and in her daughter’s life as well. Rumors of “health issues”—physical? mental?—of which Veronica spoke mysteriously and with an air of stoic melancholy. Yet the child had a “career”—a high-paying career, in fact. Though not always able to work, for mysterious reasons. (Was she away somewhere? Was she living with the estranged/unidentified father?
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