Though a Mirror Darkly
“Got so I couldn’t turn on a goddamn faucet, let alone do the dishes, take a shower, water the garden. But I wouldn’t admit to myself why I was hearing water all the time. I repressed it. Along with everything else.”
Deyquan shook his head. Sighed, looking back out into the raining night, gaze studiously avoiding Kyle’s body. “Don’t make sense, it being your kid’s ghost. Why us? No offense, but we had nothing to do with it.”
“This isn’t happening. Can’t be. It’s another hallucination, a dream, because I stopped my meds. A week ago, I stopped my meds, and I threw the empty bottle out the truck window before I came in here tonight . . . ”
Sikat na Kabanata