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126 ◆ Crab Orchard Review Midge Raymond Bill snores softly, and I ease myself out of bed. The kids’ doors are closed, and I hear the normal, comforting sounds of Cate on the phone in her room, of Justin’s music playing softly in his. Downstairs, I wander through the kitchen and into the dining room. The table has been completely cleared, with only the setting remaining in the middle. Remembering Julie’s story, I light one of the candles. I sit at the table, watching the candle burn down, and let the shadows play tricks with my eyes.
Terez Rose No Home for the Holidays It doesn’t take long for Kate to decide the Gabonese driver of the beer truck delivering her to Lambaréné is a madman. He races the lumbering vehicle down the narrow, unpaved African roads, swerving wildly to avoid crater-sized potholes that punctuate the washboard ruts. Chickens flutter and goats scatter in panic as the driver thunders through villages. Ascending hills, the weight of the truck slows to a crawl. The driver makes up time on the descent, giving the term “break-neck speed” new significance. He glances over at Kate after an hour. “The last white woman who traveled with me begged to be let out,” he comments in French. She unclenches her jaw long enough to tell him she can handle it. Visiting Carmen, a fellow American, is as close to home for the holidays as she is going to get this year. Not a chance she’ll back out now. “Peace Corpse?” he asks in English. When she tells him yes, he nods as if that explains it all. They crest one particularly steep hill and begin rocketing downward. She glances sidelong at the driver’s face. He is grinning, his expression filled with the kind of rapt glee you find on the faces of ten-year old boys playing arcade games, the type with steering wheels and virtual roads displayed on the screen. The difference, of course, is that with the game, when you make a bad turn and your vehicle rolls and explodes into a churning inferno, you simply shrug and put in a few more quarters. But the constraints of the real world and the laws of physics don’t seem to deter the driver. Nor any other driver, judging from the trucks that come barreling toward them from the other direction, veering off only at the last moment to avoid head-on collisions. The life expectancy for the average Gabonese man is fifty-one years. One in every ten Gabonese children will die before their first birthday. That’s how it is here. But statistics don’t concern this man. He only knows that the sooner he gets to Lambaréné, the sooner he will return home to family. He lives for the moment, like most Africans do. It’s a safer bet. And besides, Mom—American and not Gabonese—was only fifty-one. Crab Orchard Review ◆ 127
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