Bitter In The Mouth Pdf -

Her mother closed her eyes. “Because I was a coward,” she said. The word coward tasted like nothing. That was the strangest thing. After all these years, after all the bitterness— coward had no taste at all. Empty. Hollow. Like the space where a tooth used to be.

The bitter ones were the worst. Forgive tasted like crushed aspirin. Return like dandelion stem. Mother like burnt toast scraped black. bitter in the mouth pdf

She didn’t leave. Not that day. But she didn’t stay either. She sat by the window and watched the river move past, slow and brown, and for the first time in eleven years, she let herself taste the word mother again. Her mother closed her eyes

She drove six hours to the small house by the river where her mother had lived alone since the divorce. The lawn was overgrown. The mailbox hung open like a broken mouth. That was the strangest thing