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Show Things to Remember 141 10. Why does the blood run on and on, escaping arteries and soaking brain cells? Why can't i t make i t to number ten l i ke everyone else's blood? People ask what happened. Susan says that no one knows for sure. Bad cough maybe. Spontaneous bleed. Maybe. Sometimes in the dead of night, her brain spits. "You did i t. You wished i t . You didn't know how to love. You never w i l l ." And she sweats on the wild animal sheets and remembers that the hand on the end of her arm may have snapped when she wasn't watching and cuffed a l i t t l e boy in the head. All over t r i f l e s . Yelling, grabbing toys, being s e l f i s h . Human behavior Susan can't stand. Too f a m i l i a r . I t might have happened l i k e that. She's not sure. I t ' s not a thing to remember. |