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My Mother's Decision By Jeri THompson Combing gray shag carpet through her toes, she drags her feet to the coffee, cigarette in hand. She greets another day with yesterday’s mascara sliding down her face, and the far-away gaze of the dead. Coffee and a cigarette. Time to get up, get out of bed, get dressed and get ready - one more day. She breathes deeply the blaze-back sulfurous sizzle that shifts the weight of her world. Sunrise/sunset. Day-in/day-out. Day-after-day-after-day. Racing to place. Racing to finish. There was nothing to look forward to as she tunneled through her future. Restful weekends were what her co-workers had. Her Saturdays and Sundays were booked in advance – rounding-up children to help wash, scrub, dust, change bedding while cooking only what her alcoholic-couch-humping-husband wanted, while fetching his beers. She lived a life sentence unbound by chains or cages. I prefer to remember my mom the way she was after work (paid) and work (house). We three would watch TV together on the couch, in the security of the 1970s middle class glow. There was serenity in that room. Then father’s car pulled into the driveway. My brother and I ran to our rooms, closed our doors. We left her alone, in the dark room, with the TV still aglow. Before she became a widow, she picked up her own bottle and continued to drink her way into a second husband. They had similar tastes for cheap bourbon and chain-smoking. My mother’s life was scripted from the moment she fell for my father; pregnant before marriage, shaming her family. That single choice buried her long before the cancer overtook her in the final stretch of the race Author bio: JT lives in a Coastal community in So. Cal. She loves riding a Trikke on the beach trail.Nominated for a Pushcart Prize a few years back. You can find her work in Mas Tequila Review, Chiron Review, Yellow Chair Review and Rat's Ass among others.
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