“At any rate, she thinks, children are as devious as adults. They lie. They steal. They covet and take what they need.” New fiction by Marisa Silver.
He finishes the last bite and slides off his chair. She follows him to the door, opens it, and watches him walk to the far end of the hallway, where he disappears into his apartment. She closes her door, feeling a little bit wholesome, a little bereft.
It’s Saturday, and Scotty helps her with the dusting. With his step stool, he can reach the top of the refrigerator and the lintels above the doors with the chamois cloth. He hasn’t yet begun the alternating puff and stretch she noticed in her girls when they were about his age, the way they would amass weight around their middles right before a growth spurt, as if they needed a store of energy in order to blast off. She doesn’t know about boys, though.
In the kitchen, when Scotty takes the last bite of his toast she pulls a dollar from her purse and puts it on the table next to his plate. “That’s for you.” She’s never given him money before.“But anyone could help you.”He stares at the dollar for another moment before he takes it, stands, and heads to the front door. As she opens it, she moves to block his passage. She feels the same welling anxiety that threatened when her daughters ignored her advice.
An eyeglass chain is the first thing that goes missing. She hasn’t thought about it for years, but, the minute it’s gone, she notices. She looks at the now empty saucer on her bureau, where the chain lived, coiled and unused. When she’d first seen it at the drugstore, it seemed like a reasonable idea, even cheeky in the way that it suggested a librarian-like efficiency while, at the same time, drawing the eye toward her chest, where the glasses were dangling. She wasn’t too old to enjoy that.
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