The Don's Son Drowned Me, So I Came Back to Sink His Family novel · Chapter 24 of 24
Chapter 24: Swim
The first warm week came in the last days of March, and the Monongahela ran brown and fast with snowmelt.
The Katarina pushed four barges of coal up from the Ohio at dawn.
The new name stood on her pilothouse in white paint: RIVER CAPTAINS CO-OP.
Thirty boats now flew the same small blue flag.
My father stood on the bow of the Marta Ann in his cap, saluting every one of them as they passed.
The books lay open on a table at the McKees Rocks office, and any captain could read them.
Most of them came in only to be told they were right.
On Sunday the long table stood in the Millvale lodge hall, and the lanterns were up again.
Assunta had signed the hall note and the school roof note over to the members on the twentieth, in her upright hand, with no letter.
Nobody had said her name since, and everybody had read the signature.
Tomo sat at the head of the table, because Teta had told him to.
My father sat on his left, and the oldest widow sat on his right in her black cardigan.
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