My Mother’s House
Francesca Momplaisir
"The house screamed, “Fire!” from every orifice."
"The house screamed, “Fire!” from every orifice."
"A world without children is a world with no future."
"Three days after Escobar’s death, we gathered around the table again."
"Colomba followed Lupo, entering the center of Montenigro for the first time since she’d been a child."
"On a night of hard frost, in the ruins of a burnt church, I found a body in the snow."
"As the famed song played in the single bud still wedged inside an ear, Tom Santiago found himself baking beneath a sun that had risen hours ago, long before his postal rounds brought him to the town of Camino Pass."
"Ferreira was sitting on the bonnet of his car, rolling a cigarette, when Zigic emerged from number 4, and it took him a few minutes further to extricate himself from Ainsworth’s neighbour and his accomplice of a cat, which kept winding between his feet in a figure of eight."
"Well, death was a darkling dollop of dog wank."
"'Why should I talk to you?' the man scoffed."
"The morning after the clearly-not-business dinner, I knew I had to take some kind of action, but I was having trouble coming up with a next step that didn’t make me seem like a jealous shrew."
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