Excerpt from The Tenth of December, Fiction, Multiple Characters
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North American (General) North American (US New England - Boston, Providence)Transcript
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From 10th of December by George Saunders. Ma was singing now in the kitchen. I hope you're at least making some bacon. Harris called out a kid comes home deserves some friggin bacon. Why not stay out of it? Ma called be You just met him. I love him like my own son. Harris said, what a ridiculous statement. Ma said, you hate your son. I hate both my sons. Harris said, and you'd hate your dad if you ever met a ma said, Harris beamed as if touched that ma knew him well enough that he would inevitably hate any child he fathered. Ma came in with some bacon and eggs on a saucer. Might be a hair in it. She said lately it's like I'm beeping shedding. You are certainly welcome. Harris said you didn't beep and do nothing. Ma said, don't take credit, go in there and do the dishes that would help. I can't do the dishes. And you know that Harris said on account of my rash, he gets a rash from water. Ma said, ask him why he can't try on account of my back. Harris said he's the king of if ma said what he ain't is the king of actually do soon as he leaves, I'll show you what I'm king of Harris said. Oh, Harris, that is too much. That is truly disgusting. Ma said, Harris raised both of his hands. Harris raised both of his hands over his head like winner and still champ. We'll put you in your old room. Ma said on my bed was a hunting bow and a purple Halloween cape with a built-in ghost face. That's Harris's beep. Ma said, Ma I said, Harris told me I made my hand into a fist, put it upside my head. She gave me a blank look or maybe I didn't understand him, right? I said lump. He said, you've got a, oh, maybe he's a big beeping liar. She said he makes up crazy beep about me all the time. It's like his hobby. He told the mailman I had a fake leg. He told Eileen at the deli, one of my eyes was glass. He told the guy at the hardware, I get fainting deal and froth at the mouth. Whenever I get mad. Now, that guy is always rushing me out of there to show how fine she was. Maud did a jumping Jack Harris was clamping upstairs. I won't tell you told about the lump. Ma said, you don't tell, I told about him being a liar. Now, this was starting to seem like the old days. Ma I said, where are Ryan? And Renee living. Uh Ma said they got a sweet place over there. Harris said, rolling in the dough. I'm not sure that's the best idea. Ma said, your mom thinks Ryan's a hitter. Harris said Ryan is a hitter. Ma said I can always tell a hitter he hits. I said he hits Renee. You didn't hear it from me? Ma said he better not start hitting that baby. Harris said sweet little Marie kid. Super cute. Although what the kind of beep name is that? Renee said, hope. Although what the kind of beep name is that? Ma said, I told Renee that I said that is it a boy or a girl name? Harris said, what the beep are you talking about? Ma said you've seen it? You held, it looks like an Elf Harris said, but a girl or boy, Elf Ma said, watch. He really don't know. Well, I was wearing green. Harris said, so that don't help me think. Ma said, what did we buy it? You'd think I'd know boy or girl. Harris said it being my freaking grandkid. It ain't your grandkid. Ma said we bought at a boat. A boat could be for boys or girls. Harris said, don't be prejudiced. A girl can love a boat just like a boy can love a doll or a bra. Well, we didn't buy it a doll or a bra. Ma said we bought it a boat. I went downstairs got the phone book Renee and Ryan lived over on Lincoln 27 Lincoln 27. Lincoln was in the good part of downtown. I couldn't believe the house, couldn't believe the turrets. The back gate was redwood and opened so smooth like the hinge was hydraulic. Couldn't believe the yard. I squatted in some bushes by the screened in porch inside. Some people were talking, Renee. Ryan. Ryan's parents sounded like Ryan's parents had sonorous, confident voices that seem to have been fabricated out of previous, less sonorous confident voices by means of sudden money.