Every Day of Seven Years

Elena looked down at the man on the top step for what Mira counted as eleven seconds."Get up."Marco got up. He had been sitting five hours and came up too fast, one hand catching the rail, a big man putting his weight back onto knees that had forgotten it. There was no mat to look at this time. He kept his eyes on her face, and it plainly cost him."You will drive," Elena said. "Doctor Castell will sit behind me. You will tell me every day of seven years, in order, and I will ask questions. You may answer, or you may say that you will not, and I will know the difference.""Yes."Marco's car was a gray sedan with a dented rear fender and a paper air freshener, long dead, hanging from the mirror. Elena took the front seat, laid her umbrella along the door, and set the loaf in its dish towel on her lap with both hands on top of it, as if it might climb down. Mira got in behind her. Nobody spoke until the third traffic light.Marco told it as he told everything, flat and in order, witho

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Carrying the One

She had prepared eleven sentences in the car. She discarded them at the threshold in order of usefulness and was left with none.The room was smaller than she had pictured. She had imagined a ward, rows, a curtain. She found a closet with a painted window, a bed that sighed and cycled, and a man propped on three pillows with gray in his hair and a pair of glasses mended with tape. He had their mother's mouth. She had forgotten that she remembered it.She crossed to the chair with the quilt and sat. She did not recall crossing. Her hands were holding a loaf of bread."You pinned your hair," Daniel said."You are late.""The doctor gave you my apology.""It is not accepted. I want the explanation in writing."He laughed, and it turned into a cough, and Imelda stepped forward and stepped back again when Elena raised one hand. "I know how to wait for a cough," Elena said. "I waited through

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Every Day of Seven Years

Carrying the One