Genevieve; the Third of January by Edward Drobinski - HTML preview

Chapter 6

When they got there Genevieve made an announcement. She said; “Willy knows roofs and he’s here to have a look. I found him sweeping the snow from the roof of his own house. Or perhaps I should say that the snow found me.”

Willy said; “Genevieve is making a big deal of the little bit I got on her. More importantly you should all go home and sweep the snow from your own roofs before I have five jobs to do. This year’s snow probably put on as much weight as these guys can handle.”

Dispersing crowd of pooches; property of the author.

Willy placed his ladder on a spot near the edge of the house and climbed. Excepting Genevieve, the crowd of pooches dispersed, as the situation at Tardiff and Lenta’s seemed well

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in paw and they wanted to go sweep their own roofs before anything bad might happen.

Willy soon called out; “No problem. Easy for me to fix.

Just gotta patch the plywood and add some of that siliconized tar and spray it with some of that Rhino polyurethane. With these modified gable, stick frame types of construction no single beam is a support ............ “

Genevieve said; “Willy. Who cares? Just fix it before it starts snowing again.”

Tardiff sensibly whispered; “That’s rude,” to Genevieve, and yelled up to Willy; “I care. It’s a guy thing. These women just don’t ....... “

Willy cut him off and grumbled; “Yeah, I know. Just throw my broom up here and I’ll get the rest of this snow off before I fix it.” Genevieve threw it.

Lenta whispered to Genevieve; “What is siliconized tar?”

Genevieve whispered back; “I don’t know. Some kind of guy thing I suppose. ........ ” Genevieve pushed Lenta back a few feet, saying; “You gotta watch out. This guy goes crazy with a broom up there.”

Willy said; “I heard that.”

Genevieve stuck out her tongue and made a common contortioned face for a second; her mouth in an ersatz phony frown and her eyes crossed, one only half open much like that

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subterfuge enacted by a choice challenged, even normally repulsive child or a choice challenged, continually repulsive,

“adult” writer of aberrant fiction; their similarities apparently lying not only in their commonality of previously having been un-accustomed to occupying a space in front of any camera, other than that on the mountainous walls of Walmart; but also in their diminutive stature.

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