Skipped by the Altar, Taken by His Uncle novel · Chapter 21 of 24
Chapter 21: Election Night
"It's payable on demolition," I said.
"So?"
"So nobody's demolished anything yet."
Corrie dropped her cigarette and stepped on it with a cream heel.
"Not yet, sweetie," she said, and got in her car.
Election day was cold and bright.
I voted at the Methodist church at seven, in the same basement where they'd served ham after my father's funeral.
The poll worker was the woman from the cereal aisle.
She handed me my ballot and said, "Good luck to your husband," and then, quieter, "I read the letter."
Reuben's party was on Front Street, out on the pavement, because the shoe store only held twenty.
The barber put his chairs on the sidewalk. The baker brought sheet cakes with nothing written on them, "in case."
Connie stood on a stepladder with her camera.
Earl sat in the barber's chair with a blanket over his knees.
At nine-forty the county put the numbers up on the bar owner's TV.
"Mayor Reuben Eckert wins a second term in Halbrook with sixty-one percent of the vote."
Front Street went up.
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