MIRRORHOUSE

from “The Solutions to Ben’s Problem” by Bonnie Jo Campbell, via Diagram

Solution #1

While Connie is at the store buying formula and diapers, load up the truck with the surround-sound home entertainment system and your excellent collection of power tools, put the baby in the car seat, and drive away from this home you built with your own hands. Not to your mother’s, because that’s where Connie will come looking. Expect that after you leave, she will break all the windows in this living room, including the sliding glass door, which you’ve already replaced twice. The furnace will run and run. Then she will go to your mother’s house, curse at your mother and possibly attempt to burn that house down. Connie has long admired the old three-generation farm house for its big windows and cupola, and the thought that she will never live there will infuriate her.

3 months ago

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