Several cars hooted behind the truck, and Sean reached out a hand to gesticulate with. ![]() The traffic was quite heavy for a while, and progress was slow. “ If that had been the case I could have done it all myself, couldn’t I. I thought we’d be moving more compliant chickens.” “ You know, Sean, you weren’t quite honest with me. Towards the newest restaurant in town, “that means he is relying on us to get the birds there.” That means,” he continued, pulling out into the traffic and heading “ Only,” Sean continued, “Darren has made a big deal about the freshness of the meat he serves. Right, he climbed into the passenger seat. With Sean back in the front of the truck, Larry hustled the birds into the cage, then lifted the tail gate, bolted it in place. Now, load them up quick like, we’re going to be late.” It really does not take much to outwit them. Come on.” Sean climbed out of the truck and got behind the chickens until he managed to group them up. “ I’m trying, Sean, I’m trying, but these chickens seem to have minds of their own.” Larry darted to the left to head off one group of chickens, while the remainder Too easy.“ Would you ever get a move on, Lar! We’re going to be late.” Before she could go out without Rose, tell her friends she was at daycare, or with him. It was six months before she stopped feeling the guilt. She had slept for what felt like years, but woke feeling terrible. Of course her optimism didn’t last, and three days later she was moving her magazines to the kitchen table and shuffling droopy eyed to their bed. Her sleeping pattern will sort itself out. She couldn’t bring herself to do it at first. She pretended to be shocked although it had been at the back of her mind for days. ![]() Sleep deprivation was gnawing relentlessly at her sanity. She loved her baby with all her heart, but was beginning to resent her. They never slept more than a few hours at a time. They had tried so hard to cope the first few weeks. In the hospital she held Rose in her arms and when he looked at her this time, the love outweighed the fear. She had felt she looked like an alien at times during the pregnancy, but he always told her she looked beautiful. The plus emerged, as blue as his eyes filled with love and fear. He had held her hand with two of his as they waited it for it to develop. She would place her magazines upon it, or toss the mail there if she had groceries to attend to first. It was in this same way that the box began to lose its appeal. Ran to the box and threw open the lid, held the warm purring bundle of soft fur and big pathetic eyes.Īfter a while his belongings weren’t exciting and new anymore. It was only when she hauled her sand-filled suitcase onto their bed that she remembered. She thought about her a lot during the long car ride, but not at all on the beach. It broke her heart the first time they closed the lid on her, all big pathetic eyes and soft fur. It was because they wanted one, she had reasoned. They would put a half eaten apple inside, close the lid, and eat the other half a week later. He had brought his box and now it was their box. ![]() A month had passed and still she got butterflies as she saw all of her familiar belongings mingling with his, exciting and new. They had found a little place together, a fifth floor walk-up. She had felt so giddy when they had first moved in together, so helplessly in love that it was easy to overlook all of his flaws his troubled past, the way he always tied his shoelaces too tight, his putting the milk in the door of the refrigerator instead of the top shelf where she preferred it. How he came to be in possession of the box she never knew. A retarded little piece of flash fiction for you.
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