Kent Island
2020; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 69; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1353/chy.2020.0010
ISSN2056-5666
Autores ResumoKent Island T. Dallas Saylor We dragged kayaks out of her grandfather's shedand eased them into the bay. Out with the current toward an old duck blind.Rock sharp on my feet when we landed. Empty gun shells on the floor,and a few muddy Monopoly property cards. She found a little bug with a broken antenna,cradled it and nudged the socket into place. Later, after I'd washed up—there was something intimate about a friend's shower, a girl's,something sexy about her razors and scented soaps— in her basement lit by the big fishtank,she showed me her favorite movie, Joe Versus the Volcano. Each arc Meg Ryan shows upas someone else, but Joe doesn't notice, can't make out his chances through his brain cloudand diagnosis of near death. Today was my birthday. I'd invitedmyself out to her island across the bridge to get away from my own infected brain,not for treatment—there was no cure— but to be lost at sea with a pretty girl,looking for the volcano to jump in [End Page 141] to appease the gods, to make meaningof inescapable death, or just to kneel and pray Dear God whose name I do not knowthank you for my life. for Jen [End Page 142] Copyright © 2020 T. Dallas Saylor
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