--Red Kayak by Priscilla Cummings
“What I don’t understand is how Digger could have been so callous that morning: If he’s stupid enough to be out there, he can take what’s coming…How Digger—and J.T., too—could have been so blind to the awful possibilities. Even after I reminded them: He could die in, like twenty minutes…We ought to yell something… When exactly, did they begin to feel shamed by it? Because it has always shamed me.”
--Red Kayak by Priscilla Cummings
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“He glanced at me but quickly turned away. He didn’t want me to see his reaction, but I did, and I’ll never forget it. In that brief glimpse, I could see what he was thinking behind that fixed stare. There would be no grandkids, there would be no more Creed family bloodlines, nothing else to look forward to. For that point on I’d become the last, most devastating disappointment in what he thought his life had added up to---one overwhelming failure. I looked over to him, a little boy just wanting his dad to look back on him with approval. I wanted him to make some joke about what a loser that other kids was, about how I’d really kicked ass tonight, about how he’d never seen a high score like that. I wanted him to muss my hair and take me home and pop some popcorn so we could stay up late and watch Saturday Night Live. I wanted him to tell me everything would be okay."
--Hero by Perry Moore |