Absolute Unit
Bill leans back, scanning Trent’s liberal use of eyeliner, the leopard-print jacket with the white fuzzy collar, the strands of fake pearls around the kid’s thin neck.
“What’s that I smell?” he rasps, after taking a loud sniff. “Perfume?”
“Cologne. Trying to be presentable, you know.”
“More like trying to get beat.” Bill makes a great show of shrugging. “Anyway, what you need, kid?”
“Your brother—”
“Your father, you mean. Show some respect.”
“He didn’t leave me any money.”
“That’s why you call me, at eight on a Sunday?”
Trent turns checking his watch into a piece of theater. The dramatics run deep in this family: every slight, every comeback elevated to the level of Shakespeare. “Yeah, and i
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