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Show 93 Those might have been Neda's last words except that now Red really di< iave his a hands full. He and Neda exchanged death glares, though if it came down to pure glare, I think Neda would have rubbed him out. Red unpacked the people sandwich and we all stood there for a second. Everybody was quiet. Then Neda collapsed. Red went over to her and felt her pulse, xxax then he went axa over to the phone. "Hello," he said into the receiver. "My daughter is too fat for this world." Neda may have been a genius but x we still had to use a xkaai k wheelbarrow to pack her into the Rainbow, which wasn't anywhere near as pretty or Six sturdy as it used to be. Helen got in the front with Red. "Watch Jon and the kids," Helen said to me. "My heart is a stale soda cracker," whimpered Neda. "Your heart is a broken pump," I told her. "Literal asshole," said Neda. "Watch your god-damn mouth," said Red. And off they went. Joseph and Andrew were gax getting old enough now to be regular human beings. They didn't like Neda because she ate all the candy and cookies in the house, even the stuff they hid in the room XKXi they shared with me, but they didn't mind me because I didn't gxa give a shit v/hat they did. Joseph was kind of quiet, maybe because he couldn't see in one eye and couldn't hear in one ear and couldn't smell, but xxx Andrew v/as chip off of Helen only upside down. They didn't parade around with Helen x anymore when she had her little novenas, though they never axxa quite recovered from that stuff either. They were usually up to something weird. Lately Andrew x had been taking notes. "I'm turning this family into a comic book," said Andrew. His head was still a little too oval from that struggle he had with the womb. "Uncle Jon is an alien from outer space and Hitler is going to come and save us." "Hitler's dead." "Ha," said Andrew. "Not for long. I'm going to be the anti-Christ and Joseph is the Infant of Prague. He can fly, and those little earths he carries are really laser bombs." "That will never be popular," said Joseph. Everybody always |