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≡ A Bottle of Beer ≡

 
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  • Yolanda
  • Jose
  • Life and Wonder
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A Bottle of Beer
 
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Javier

Like a boulder she rolled through the room, her hips bumping the furniture that Javier had made.  An oak plank table and chairs filled  the center, scarred by boys as they wrestled and laughed.  She missed that noise now.  Two large chairs sat on either side of the stone fireplace.  One was Yolanda's where she'd spent nights on the horsehair-stuffed cushion doing needlework or rocking babies to sleep.  It bore the double bowls of her large rump and was uncomfortable to suit anyone else. 

The other chair had been Javier's. 


 
Yolanda awoke shaking. She heard the deep snoring of her father, her mother's high whistling snorts, the threshing about of her sisters as they struggled in sleep for space on the bed.  All but the youngest boy, Pablo, were outside on the porch.  As she moved closer to him, the hard night was pierced by the howl of a wolf.

She jumped out and ran to her grandparents' bed, sliding quickly under the covers.  Interrupted in midstride atop his wife, the old man swept her out with a swipe of his hand.