[DOWNLOAD] "Head in Bag (Short Story)" by Confrontation # Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Head in Bag (Short Story)
- Author : Confrontation
- Release Date : January 22, 2009
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 69 KB
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They'd been out back in the garden, transplanting a cholla cactus. Her father called it the front, and on this score Stephanie sided with her mother: front was the sliding glass doors and porch that gave way to the beach and the Pacific Ocean. Back was the cramped fenced-in yard set just off the Pacific Coast Highway, even though it was by this way the three of them came and went. Behind the lattice fence--high, to keep out the rush of near constant traffic--was the muddle of a desert garden that was her father's project. An ocotillo next to a barrel cactus? her mother had scoffed. Stephanie felt it her duty to offer moral support, so there she was, lining the hole they'd dug with gravel while her father loosened the soil at the edge of the cholla's pot. She looked at her father's belly, mounding and spilling beneath the white tee-shirt as he worked, at his freckled arms, and thought how very un-desert-like he was. He offered Stephanie a pair of thick gloves. She shook her head and he said nothing. He put on his own gloves and they picked up the cholla with cushions of balled-up newspaper and eased the cactus in. Stephanie held the cholla straight while her father filled in with his shovel and tamped down the soil with his foot. Her skin was darker than his, but it was a tan with a blush to it, not the earth-skin of her mother. In Stephanie there was water to spare. She was all curve and give, not the edge and angle of her mother. Who would ever describe her as whip-smart, razor-sharp? Though she was, she was certain of it; and her mother seemed to think so, too, often enough.