Skipped by the Altar, Taken by His Uncle novel · Chapter 19 of 24
Chapter 19: Waders
Nobody said anything for a while.
I picked up my laptop.
The red nail polish on the lid had chipped at the A. Somebody had spilled coffee on the keyboard.
"His sister," Earl said. "He put his sister's name on it."
"Adopted sister," Reuben said.
"I adopted nobody. My son did." Earl took off his glasses. "Same thing at my table."
Reuben picked up the contract.
"This goes out today," he said.
I looked at him.
"Today," he said again. "The station. The Courier. Your newsletter. Before he knows it's gone."
I didn't answer. I was too cold to fight.
It was the first thing we ever really fought about.
At ten that morning the river crested at fifty-four feet.
It stood against the closed floodgate, brown and enormous, four feet higher than the street on the other side.
Front Street was dry.
At eleven Blaine's black Tahoe pulled up at the foot of Front Street, and two TV crews got out of a van behind it.
Blaine climbed out in a brand-new pair of chest waders.
They were bright green. The price tag was still zip-tied to one strap.
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