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• W2000934482 abstract "A GOOD BOY/Cynthia Morrison Phoel FOR HOURS NOW Dobrin has been begging Stassi to stop it, shut up, are you trying to make her mad? Put those down, he hisses, whispering, though his mother lags too far behind to hear. Stassi has plucked two tomatoes from his bag and is holding them to his chest, the stems pointing out. Dobrine, he says, cupping the undersides of the tomatoes with mock tenderness. You want a squeeze? Molya ti si, Dobrin pleads. He has had enough of his friend. They have spent the entire afternoon together, helping his mother in the garden she keeps a half-hour's walk up the mountain. Until today Dobrin had almost liked the garden, mostly for the gratification it brought his mother, who hardly had time for it. Now Stassi has tainted the place, not to mention the tomatoes, which no amount of washing will ever make clean. Your mother's tomatoes are sofirm, Stassi said the first time she turned her back. So deliciously ripe. By the time they were finished in the garden, Stassi was saying things right in front of her, as if his comments were so clever she would never catch on. He finally shut up when they began the walk home, but at the crest of the hill overlooking their town, Dobrin's mother stopped to talk to an old woman. It irritated Dobrin that there could be so many old women and that his mother could notpass a single one of them without stopping to say hello. He continued down the road with Stassi, which turned out to be a mistake. Away from Dobrin's mother, Stassi started up again. Some nipples really are green, you know, he says now, admiring his handheld protrusions. Dobrin can see his mother inching away from the woman, trying to extricate herself from the conversation she started. It is still early, and already they are on the brink of evening, the sun low over the mountain. Dobrin is ready for the summer to be over. Stassi will be in his class again, but there will be others there to dilute his energy and Mrs. Kuneva there to squelch it. Many of his classmates think it unfair that they should be stuck with crabby old Kuneva for a second year in a row, but Dobrin doesn't mind so much—certainly not so much as he minds Stassi fondling the tomatoes. If you don't stop it— he begins but is distracted by a tomato bouncing down the mountain. He squats to trap it, and another hurtles The Missouri Review · 135 by, another and another. A throng of tomatoes has escaped from one of the bags. Above him, his mother stands in the middle of the street, shading her eyes. Her bag of tomatoes, what's left of it, is tipped at her feet. A quickening in Dobrin's stomach and he follows her gaze, panning church steeple and bakery stack, flagpole displaying limp Bulgarian flag, rusted metallic beams of the new post office, started but never finished , the skyline of flat asphalt roofs. Finally, with Stassi beside him pointing, Dobrin sees it. In the hours they have been at the garden, the large white moon of a satellite dish has appeared on top of an apartment building. Theirs. Bozhe, Stassi says, Do you think your father— I think you should go home, Maika says. She is walking fast now, about to overtake them. Stassi nods politely to Dobrin's mother, and then, looking at Dobrin, his face splits with a grin too wide to be merely a smile. He makes a great show of running down the mountain unencumbered, flailing his arms out from his sides, going out of his way to stomp on tomatoes lolling in the road. Dobrin's mother continues down the road, neither waiting for Dobrin to retrieve Stassi's bag nor slowing for him to catch up. By the time he is balanced with a bag in each hand, his mother is several paces ahead. Something advises him to keep his distance. After a block or so of trailing Maika, of silence and double-the-bags bumping, leaking..." @default.
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