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GAME OF PHONES
EMILY
February 12
“Brother,” I said.
“Daughter,” he answered, which is probably confusing to anyone who
doesn’t know that everyone calls my father by the name Brother, despite (a)
it not being his actual name, (b) him not being a member of a religious
organization, and (c) it not being his actual name. Which I realize I said
twice, but I didn’t want only two pertinent points in my reference to my
father. He’s a three-points sort of guy.
Where was I? Oh, the call.
“Brother,” I said again, and gave the side paddock a meaningful look,
just as if Brother could see it. Which he couldn’t, because he refuses to
video chat, claiming that every time he does, his phone is screwed up for
weeks after. It’s not—he’s just old. But I digress.
“The time has finally come,” I told him, and rapped firmly on the
window overlooking the aforementioned paddock. The landlady’s two
rescue donkeys, Elton and Elton, who lived in our paddock, were busily
chomping on the new snap lock I’d put on the gate. Elton I looked ashamed,
and busied himself with the empty grain bucket in apparent nonchalance,
but Elton II maintained a steady, and highly discomforting, eye contact with
me while he tried to consume first the metal lock, then the wooden fence
itself.
“For what? Death? It comes to all of us in the end, Emily,” Brother
answered, oofing a little as he obviously sank down into his favorite
oversized leather chair. His voice had that rich timbre that it gets when he
goes into one of his history lectures. “I, myself, am now well into my
sixties, and I can honestly say that I stare death straight in the eye every
morning when I stagger into the bathroom. There’s nothing we can do to
stop the relentless push, push, push of the clock as time streams past us.
Take you, for instance.”
“Take me where? Hey! Knock it off or I’m calling your mom, and you
know how testy she gets when she has to climb the fence just to yell at you
guys.” I covered the mouthpiece of the phone when I bellowed the last bit,
stomping as I marched out of the door, and pinned back the errant donkey
with what Fang has come to call the Emily Look. Elton I scampered off
after a swift glance at my face.
Elton II paused, considered what he knew
about me, and wisely stopped chewing on the fence in order to casually
move off. No doubt to inflict his naughtiness elsewhere, but so long as he
left the fences alone, I was willing to look away for a little bit. “I swear, if
Mrs. Fliss wasn’t knocking a hundred quid off the monthly rent for us
watching those two, I’d send them back to her farm. What? No, I have not
had a hit at a crack pipe. Really, Brother! Not only do you know me better
than that, but that sort of comment is seriously 1990s and not at all fitting
for someone who refutes his boomerhood.”
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