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- Author: Ellie Banks
- Language: English
- Genre: Small Town & Rural Fiction
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The Day of the Fire
Ignition Point—
Jenna
Jenna Abbott was late and she didn’t have time to get gas.
She pulled her car up to the pump and waited. The attendant was inside
and not paying attention and this was Oregon, and she couldn’t do anything
about it.
He was on his phone.
Dumb kid.
She had to pick Chloe up from dance and Aiden from football, and if she
was five seconds late, her ex-fucking-husband would make a trauma out of
it, and then she’d have to murder him. If she was in prison for murder, she
would have bigger problems than being late for practice.
It was almost appealing.
If she were in prison, someone would cook for her. And do her laundry.
And Ryan would be dead, so there was that, too.
She didn’t actually want Ryan dead. For the children.
That was nearly convincing.
She was so grumpy today, homicide seemed like a reasonable outlet for
her feelings.
It was the smoke. Her eyes hurt. It made her cough.
She hadn’t seen the sun for two weeks, and this hotter-than-hell
midsummer nightmare, which brought about the kind of seasonal affective
disorder usually reserved for the dead of winter, was beginning to get under
her skin.
She was tired of it. Wildfire Season had become a thing in Southern
Oregon and she was heartily sick of the weeks and months from as early as
June all the way through October when the brown smoke blotted out the sky
and turned the sun orange. Smoke that blew in from Northern California
and got trapped in the little soup bowl of a valley, giving residents even
more reason to curse their neighbors to the south.
Her eyes were scratchy, the stench of the smoke coming through the
vents. And she was late.
“You little asshole, get off your phone.” She tapped on her steering wheel
and glared into the office at the kid, who didn’t look up, even when she
waved. She honked, which she hated doing because it was a small town,
and while she was having a small tantrum, she didn’t want everyone to
know it.
The honking didn’t even get his attention.
Everything was annoying today. Everything.
She got out of her car, about to turn and walk toward the office and
pound on the kid’s door, when she stopped. There was a woman standing
across the street holding a sign. She had dirty hair and clothes and was
looking away, like she was ashamed. And Jenna felt compassion for another
human being for the first time in four months.
For the first time since Ryan had walked out. For the first time since he’d
confessed to his affair, and that the woman—if a nineteen-year-old could be
called a woman and not herself a fetus—was pregnant.
Jenna had been sitting in an air-conditioned car on butter-soft leather
seats, despairing, and this homeless woman was out in the triple-digit heat,
asking for a few coins.
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