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Float

Allan Onik

    Do you want a root beer float? I know it’s your favorite.
    Yes, please mommy.
    In the carnival, the sun was bright and the little girl sipped the float and ate cotton candy.
    I love you mommy.
    You’re my sunshine, bumblebee.

    In the hospital, she floated above her body and looked down. The nurse had picked her arm and her son was sitting next to her, reading a novel.

    I want that Tales from the Crypt comic.
    It’s too scary for little boys.
    Then how about this action figure?
    Spider Man is ok. Comic when you’re in middle school.

    Her husband kneeled next to her bed and prayed. The priest came in, did a Hail Mary, and held his cross. She looked down at the tops of their heads in the silence and bliss.

    He’s too quiet. And those pictures he draws are strange.
    He’ll grow out of it, he’s just a little boy.
    The other two didn’t do it.
    Let’s go sit by the pool

    The doctor turned off the monitor. She saw the sheet pulled up over her head. The nurse made a note. The man sat down and put his head in his hands. The young woman wept.

    I’ll take the float mommy, I love you
    I love you too, bumblebee

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