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Shirley Temple tremavo had a party and her own son was three hours late.
He's already missed his cousin's goshdern wedding and grape-
Juice toast and cake
Now he's going to miss the couple rushing into the car.
All the tables are decorated with white flowers on the beaker, because the groom is a chemical family of a textile company, the bride and groom are babies, and when they are completely unfamiliar with each other, she posted enlarged photos, overall, Mawmaw will give her reception-
Also, if not for the business with Tommy.
Tommy was supposed to be driving from Atlanta, where he was the host of a popular show, returning from extinction.
Every episode they actually bring back long
Dead, forgotten creatures, Military knives
Tiger with teeth, Dodo, and others.
The show is a bit controversial, but people seem to like it.
Tommy always looks so handsome wearing a khaki cloth hunting vest.
The happy couple is about to leave when the phone rings.
An uncle held it outside the door and said it was you. know-Who's online?
Mawmaw took it off because she didn't want to listen.
Not a word.
Tommy is always full of excuses.
She gave all the guests a bag of rice, and when the bride and groom sneaked into Plymouth decorated with shaving cream and condoms, they went out to shower them, and then they left, the party was over and Tommy missed the whole thing.
It is very clear that he will not fault anyone except himself.
The house was empty again, Mawmaw stepped onto the back porch, took a sip of mint and felt the cool evening air on her freckle skin.
The air of the night is a natural force that helps you remember how small you are, when you remember how small you are in the big picture, you will see how stupid it is to feel uneasy about almost anything.
This is a technique she learned from a woman on TV, and although the woman talks specifically about money issues, Mawmaw finds that it works in most cases.
This technology can help you remember that you have to hand over control to the universe.
She can feel the breeze itching her skin.
She could recognize the breeze as a natural force, much bigger than her self who was a little older with arthritis.
She understands that one day, who knows, perhaps even in tonight's sleep, she will die and enter God's eternal kingdom of gold, feeling the love of God, when this happens, all her frustration and worries will be like the dew on the fast windshield --
On the moving car, the stripes on the glass are clean, without any blur.
The idea was a real comfort for her, she could almost put her anger down, but she allowed herself to imagine Tommy's face with a boy-like look, when he pretended to have no idea at all why someone was mad at him, the dress he was wearing.
Mawmaw left the mints on the steps and went in and piled up the dirty plates and glasses.
Really clean can wait until morning.
Upstairs, she put on her pajamas and took medicine.
When she heard the truck in the driveway, she was on the edge of her sleep.
The lights on the porch gave out new electricity.
If the moon can send out more light, it will. Tommy is home.
She wants to sing.
She hopes the party is not over so everyone can see her son.
When she greeted him outside, he held her deep.
"You look thin," she said . "
How about coconut shrimp or wedding cake?
His eyes were bloodshot and his brown hair wrinkled.
He was wearing trousers and white underwear.
She hasn't seen him for eight months and six days.
She had forgiven him and had forgotten how angry she was an hour ago.
He took her for a short waltz on the asphalt road.
"I promised you to dance," he said . "
Don't think I forgot.
"Your uncle asked me if you got mixed up with the wrong person," she said, teasing him.
"This is the code for drugs if you want to know.
They stopped dancing.
"Did you straighten him up?
"I don't know what to tell him," she said, with her eyebrows arched and her eyes moved away, but with a smile.
Sometimes she feels like she's with Tommy, carefree and relaxed.
"Well, Maw, I was late for good reason," he said, and then patted his truck with a sticker on the door of the truck that came back from the extinguished magnetic sticker.
"I need to show you something.
Pour us a glass of wine and meet me later.
"She poured him some grapefruit juice in a tall Duffy duck glass.
Tommy entered the house from the back door.
She handed him the Cup and he took a big sip and looked at her in confusion.
He took out a flask from his pocket and stuffed it into the Duffy duck.
"Follow me," he said, and bring her into the backyard, both of them beating the floodlights overhead through the veil of mosquitoes and moths.
There, on the newly trimmed grass, Tommy hid something under the quilt. It's moving.
He said: "What I want to show you is that you can't tell anyone about it.
It would be a big trouble if you did.
Trouble in capital T
He sipped his drink and pulled the quilt open.
Mawmaw took a step back.
She is looking at some kind of elephant. With hair. "Don't worry.
"She's not in danger," said Tommy.
"Bread island short Mammoth elephant.
The last wild life was about 10,000 years ago.
They are the smallest mammo elephant ever.
She's cute, isn't she?
"Mammoth is like the waist --
High, dirty fur
The golden fur hanging on the dirt.
Its ivory, white and original, curves up.
The forehead was high and knotted, covered with dark fur.
The trunk detects the ground for God-knows-
Then roll back like a jelly roll.
"What do you do in my yard, what is a modern bread Island dwarf? " Mawmaw asks.
"Listen," said Tommy.
"This is very special.
In addition to the people at work, you are the first modern person to pay attention to this creature.
She's not on the show yet.
You can touch her. She's friendly.
Almost tame.
Her name is Shirley Temple.
"Shirley Temple? " Mawmaw asks.
"You can't say that.
Shirley Temple is Shirley Temple.
"She pointed to the dog pen, and Shirley Temple, the big Dane, was buried under the dog pen.
The dog's tumor could not be removed.
The vet wanted her to sleep but Mawmaw couldn't stand it.
One night she opened the pen by mistake and three days later she found the dog curled up under the porch and cold.
"Okay," said Tommy.
I mean honorific.
"Call this Shirley Temple, if you want.
He put his hand on the ivory of the mammoth elephant.
"Or can we call her the third Shirley Temple?
Because, you know, technically, the first ship is a good one lol 'Shirley Temple.
This is as dangerous as the little girl.
"His hand ran down the back of Shirley Temple three.
Mammoth looked at him with a mysterious black eye.
In this new environment, it doesn't seem to know what to do. "Is it full-grown?
"That's what they told me.
Isn't she great?
Mawmaw nodded because this mammoth elephant is really a scientific miracle, a real miracle.
She woke up from four in the morning. m.
The final preparations are being made for the reception and she has taken the pills.
The moonlight shone on the three of them.
They decided to let Shirley Temple spend the night in the kennel.
Not all Mawmaw friends like her son's show, especially friends under the holy light of God.
At the beginning of the show, she had not retired yet, serving as the financial administrator of the church, and Pastor Frank pulled her to his warm little office and asked if she cared about her son.
She didn't show up until that moment.
Pastor Frank knows everything about Mawmaw and Tommy.
Two months after she was born, they joined the church.
She was not married because Tommy's father was married to someone else.
Kyle severs, a CPA in another town, gave a speech at the Business Administration night school in Mawmaw.
Kyle was not able to leave his wife, but he was very gentleman with all of this and did not send out regular checks until the day he died of a heart attack.
Mawmaw thought it would be better not to attend the funeral.
Tommy knows the name Kyle severs.
Mawmaw does not like secrets.
The morning after the reception, her son walked into the kitchen and asked if he could eat scrambled eggs and grits.
She can't refuse him.
His hair was raised in the back. He's forty-
May be twelve years old.
Mawmaw on her toes, reach out to get a pot with a high hook, and then go down in the bottom drawer to get a mixer.
She feels more energetic than she has been for months.
Her knees don't bother her at all.
Tommy reads the newspaper while drinking coffee.
Eggs crackled in bacon grease.
"How's Shirley this morning? " Tommy asks.
Throughout the morning, Mawmaw did not let himself look out the window above the sink.
"Don't see anything outside," she said . ". "Don't see it?
"Tommy came out of the back door in a flash.
She watched him rush across the grass in boxer shorts.
He entered the pen.
The Mammoth elephant emerges from behind the oak tree on the far right.
It looks almost like a dog from a distance.
But that long detective suitcase. Those tusks!
Tommy squatted in front of the mammoth elephant and crossed the dirty place with his fingers --blond coat.
"Wash your hands," Mawmaw said as soon as he got back inside.
There may be diseases.
"Maw, it has no disease," he said.
However, she could not help but notice how thoroughly his hands were wiped in the sink.
She put his breakfast plate on the table and sat down to see him eat.
"How could they let you take this elephant? " she asks.
"Is this not against the rules?
"This is not an elephant.
Look, Maw, I'm going to tell you a dirty little secret.
Do you know about the return from the extinction zoo?
"At the end of each show, the lovely little zoo keeper will live here with all the animals. ""Right.
Her name is Samantha.
It's just that she didn't bring all the animals to the zoo.
We never say this on the radio, but sometimes we mistakenly clone twins, which is a bureaucratic nightmare legally.
There's so much fucking law that we're "no, please.
"I'm sorry, this is true.
You think we're making nuclear weapons.
Before we shoot this episode, we can keep the twins alive so we can use each twin on the camera.
But we have to get rid of it.
Samantha is the one who must carry out euthanasia. It's awful.
"Tommy grinded the grain into a small pile and took another bite.
"Why are you telling me this? " Mawmaw asks.
"Because," said Tommy, "We have two short mammo elephants. Twins.
It's just that Samantha can't do it on her own this time.
She brought Shirley home.
Not the smartest move, but it's impossible for her to put a mammoth elephant in the woods, you know?
Anyway, there is a problem with the program.
In case they spied around, she needed to take it out of her house for a few days and I told her I would help.
"Mawmaw goes to the window.
Shirley Temple 3 is using its ivory to remove dirt.
She wants to know what it eats.
If it can eat eggs.
The dog used to eat eggs. Shirley Temple
Tommy plans to stay in town for less than a week, but his friends want to see him.
One night, his high school partner Mitch Mitchell came over to take him out as before.
Mickey recently divorced and Tommy said he felt lonely enough to make Mo laugh.
How much does Mickey Mitchell know about loneliness?
But Mickey stood in the foyer and gave mamomo a sad hug.
She hasn't seen him in about ten years.
Unlike her son, he is not very old.
His chin is thinner and his hair is thinner.
He was obviously in awe of the real celebrity Tommy and was full of questions.
Have Tommy seen many movie stars?
Is he dating someone special?
Did any animal bite him, sting him, stab him, or do unimaginable physical damage to him?
Anyway, how did scientists bring back all these animals?
First of all, Tommy says he hasn't seen many movie stars since he lives in Atlanta, not Hollywood.
He has not dated any particular person, and of course has not dated any famous person, so far he has not suffered any harm from animals, and as for science, to be honest, he had no idea how they did it.
He's just a genius.
He read the sign.
Let's say that he doesn't have to deal with any pipettes.
Mitch Mitchell thinks it's just hysterical.
"Will you take care of the dog?
"Tommy asked on his way out, shining in his eyes.
Mawmaw nodded but as soon as he left she wanted to know what she was supposed to do. Walk it?
Please?
Earlier that week, she learned on her computer that prehistoric mammo was eating grass, fruit, branches, berries and nuts.
There is a bucket of mixed nuts in the kitchen.
She poured some cashews, almonds and pecans into a metal bowl and brought them outside, mammoth like a square that crossed the trunk through the metal gate.
When she put the bowl in front of it, the box will be backed up.
It doesn't seem to be very interested in nuts.
"Whether it's taken or left," said Mawmaw, who gave up the mammoth elephant as a night wash: Cream, electric toothbrush, her sleeping pill just before slipping into the faded red pajamas
She slept until midnight and a car in the driveway pulled her up.
She realized that she was no longer in bed, but at the desk in the office, half of her toenails were painted dark red and the computer printed 90two-
Page document on the danger of leadbased paint.
Her pills sometimes have this effect.
They turned her into a zombie.
She walked up to the window, but it wasn't Mickey's Bronco outside the driveway. It's a taxicab.
Tommy stuffed a stack of cash into the driver's window and walked to the house.
Mawmaw climbed back to her room and closed her door.
She considered taking another pill but turned on the TV.
An hour later, her son's show began.
This is a reproduction of the pine, a prehistoric mao with a pointed tail and shaped like a wolf stick.
This glytopdon is the size of a small car.
They named him. Donny.
Tommy tells the story of Donnie's return to the wild, in which case he is a reedy river bank with brown water and slow speed.
The camera followed Donnie through the reed.
Through the trees at the bank opposite, only for a moment, Mawmaw saw what it looked like at the top of the apartment.
Donnie did nothing but his nose facing the reed.
Tommy entered the scene and went straight to the beast.
By contrast, her son looks small.
He knocked on the hard shell of it.
Donnie did not seem to notice.
At the end of the show, there was a loose water behind a truck heading for the zoo.
Samantha, a strong and petite woman with curly blonde hair, gave Tommy a thumb --
Up, then the rapid flow of credit.
There was no light outside, but she went downstairs for coffee and had a look at Shirley.
The mixed nuts in the bowl are gone.
Mammoth squeaked behind her throat.
Later that morning Tommy showed up, messy and quiet.
They were having breakfast when his cell phone made a harsh sound.
Wing Dragon Bell-
In his bowl of wheat.
"Not at the table," she said . ""Please.
"But Tommy answered the phone.
He walked into the living room.
She was upset to hear him.
"Of course, yes, she's safe here," he said . "
"She insisted very well.
I told you that everything will be fine if we move on.
"Well, we know it's possible.
But listen, please don't do anything drastic.
Just take a deep breath.
Have you had breakfast?
Go get an egg sandwich you like and take a walk.
I will be back soon.
We can solve this problem together. One step at a . . .
"Mawmaw is out for mint.
She smoked two cigarettes a day, one after breakfast, and one after dinner. A self-imposed rule.
This has been the case since she was a teenager.
No one called her at the time.
She's Louise Baker in the dark.
Stealing ice cream hair beauty at the pharmacy after school.
A crow landed on the top of the dog pen and flew away.
Little mammoth is almost immobile.
Like a human model.
Why does it not move? It moves.
Mawmaw realized that she kept holding her breath.
The back of the pen is a huge shuffle, and the other side is a forest.
Sometimes deer come out of the woods and eat green apples in autumn.
Shirley Temple may want to see this, she thought, and then take a last sip of mint.
The mammoth elephant, Tommy said, came from the late New World.
It breaks away from its own time and lives outside of God's laws of nature.
God created the world in seven days, but those days are not necessarily twenty. four-hour days.
Every day of his life may be millions of years.
In heaven, there is no point in human time, where the clock may have no hands, only golden arms, and arms belong to God.
What day did Mammoth seem to have been created?
Because it is a day of rest, it is not on the seventh day.
Most likely it came to the world on the fifth morning and went out again on the same afternoon.
She is grateful to be included in the great creation parade, but given that the whole creation has come and gone, it is difficult not to feel a little lost in the parade.
Mawmaw has experienced this anxiety before.
"Little anxiety," her pastor called it once, and suggested that in this case she imagine a zipper extending along the length of her back, a meat --
Colored teeth, when unzipped apart, reveal the dazzling white vastness as large and deep as the universe itself.
But, in her view, it may be unfair or even dangerous to put such a large thing in such a small and limited matter.
The plate was still on the table when she went in.
She found Tommy packing upstairs.
She asked if everything was OK and he would of course say, then added, "but I have to leave a little earlier than expected.
"Is everything okay with Samantha ? "" she asks.
"I think that's Samantha?
"He took a curious look at her and then proceeded to collect the clothes from the armchair and the floor.
"Are you dating the zoo keeper on your show? " she asks. "Dating her?
"I don't know," he said.
"Is it important?
Look, Maw, I'm sorry. I need to go back to Atlanta for a few days.
I will come back once things are resolved. ""What about . . .
She moved out of the window to another guest.
"Don't hate me, Mo.
Please don't hate me, but Shirley has to stay here for a while.
I promise not too long.
Just, people ask questions if you want to know the truth.
Samantha is in hot water.
They want proof of death.
Someone must have called in the zoo.
What did you help her? "He grimaces.
"Maw, what do you want me to say?
I did it for love?
"Mawmaw is quiet.
Everything he does for love will certainly not make the situation less enjoyable.
"Very well," he said.
"Of course, Samantha and I may have something. Maybe.
That's why I have to leave and fix it all.
She may have violated some laws.
"Mawmaw was too lazy to ask him how many laws were currently violated in her own backyard.
"Whatever you do," he said, pulling up the handle of his roller trunk and not telling anyone about the mammoth elephant.
"Once the business with Samantha is over, we will figure out what to do next. I promise.
"When mammoth elephant began to lose hair, she had taken care of it for less than a month.
Mawmaw sits in front of the pen on the kitchen stool.
It's getting warmer and warmer. she doesn't know what to do.
The Golden tangled lumps of the Mammoth elephant are scattered on the ground, and the exposed skin is red and irritating.
It knocked the door with crooked ivory.
"I won't lie to you.
"I'm worried," she said to Shirley.
"Tommy won't call me back.
Don't look at me like that.
I know what you're thinking.
Tommy's not on the phone?
It's a surprise, right?
You have fleas on you, don't you?
Or are you harassing? Is this normal?
You may not be used to the weather, do you? Eighty-
Eight degrees today, it will only get hotter and hotter.
And then?
"Mawmaw wants to know if this mammoth elephant is going to catch on the fence, but over the next week she looks out the back window and never catches it in the show
Most of the time, it's just the heat standing there and breathing heavy.
But the hair is still falling off.
A piece of skin looked rough and Mawmaw took out her lotion and rubbed some on the spot with two fingers.
"It's expensive lotion, you know.
I want something special.
I use it on my face, otherwise it will dry between my eyes.
Do you feel better?
She called Tommy and got his voice mail.
When the temperature reached 90 degrees, she brought Shirley into the house to cool off for a while.
Guiding animals in corridors is a challenge.
This mammoth elephant has only a waist, but it is a huge creature that is too heavy to lift and can't push.
Mawmaw turned it to the laundry room where the dryer was tumbling.
She moved some cleaning supplies and boxes along the back wall to the shelf and cleaned up a space on the floor.
She laid a plastic waterproof cloth and pulled the air up. conditioning.
She filled the bowl of mammoth elephant with beans, orange peel and mixed nuts, always nuts, and a little hay she picked up in the garden --supply store.
She made a nest next to the washing machine with some old bath towels.
She told Shirley good night and closed the door.
That night, when she climbed up the bed, the house was almost an Arctic tundra, and she needed four blankets to keep her warm.
In the morning, she put on her jersey and jacket.
The laundry room smells like a circus.
She shoveled the feces into the bucket and poured it into the woods behind the house.
She lit a citrus candle to cover up the smell.
Tommy hasn't returned her call yet, and by the time Shirley came back from extinction, she had made her debut on TV.
It's been a few weeks on the calendar, and Mawmaw has made mammoth elephant into the living room as a special treat.
Just at the beginning of the episode, she gave Shirley a small bowl of milk and sank into the sofa.
Mawmaw keep in mind the theme song, Horn and jungle drum floating on highly scientific electronic beats.
Tommy tells some basic facts about the mammoth.
How they walked on Earth for thousands of years, and in some cases how they were overkill by early humans.
The show has a very protective effect on the technology that breeds the mammoth image, so it jumps to the rear
In Shirley's first year of birth, her legs and torso were stretched, her coat was thicker, and tus teeth stretched out.
Then Tommy started.
He asked one of the scientists what they used to eat. the scientist smiled weakly on his face and told Tommy that he had found frozen hairy elephants full of leaves and grass in his abdomen.
They also like fried eggs and grapefruit peel, not to mention M & M, Mawmaw added.
"Look at you, Shirl.
You saw yourself?
Very impressive.
"In the following scenario, Shirley was loaded into a truck and dropped off in the middle of the Canadian Arctic region, which was close to the condition of the bread island thousands of years ago.
Behind the truck with fur
Tommy explained that Shirley was connected by cameras and tracking devices, and now, for the first time in thousands of years, we will see a mammoth elephant in the wild.
Mawmaw knew that Shirley would survive, but she still grabbed the armrests.
The mammoth elephant lost interest and wandered around the kitchen.
"You missed it," Mawmaw called . ".
When it moves to the back of the house, she can hear its ivory knocking on the wall.
Shirley stopped her hair.
The gray scabs form a light-colored shell on the bald head and crack under a wet towel.
But Mawmaw is still worried about her patients.
Shirley is not drinking enough water.
She seemed sleepy.
She has diarrhea.
Mawmaw found it, dark green puddle on tarp.
She brought Shirley back to the kennel so she could clean up the mess.
She threw the whole plastic in the trash and put a new one.
"What can I do for you?
Asked Mawmaw, bring Shirley back.
"Will Pepto help? More sunlight?
"Mawmaw woke up the next morning to find more diarrhea.
Mammoth elephant tried to hide behind the washing machine, and her ivory knocked on the metal.
Mawmaw got on the computer and searched for "elephant flu", but the sites were not particularly helpful.
She dipped her fingers in the water bowl and pressed her fingers against the long-haired elephant on the wrinkled gray lips under the trunk. "Come on.
You can do that. Just a little. You need this.
"She wet her fingers again, and this time the mouth opens a little to receive them, but when the water drops past Shirley's lips, she closes her mouth again as if the liquid was poisonous
Mawmaw stroked her ivory and knotted forehead and brushed out loose strands from her dark eyes.
She called Tommy's cell phone but received another voicemail from him. "Tommy.
Shirley Temple is dying.
I just think you should know.
I'm doing what I can, but I don't think that's enough.
Maybe Samantha should put her down as they asked.
Maybe she really has a problem.
I don't know why you brought this modern thing to my house.
"Mawmaw imagined the body of the mammoth elephant, whose blond hair was stiff with dry feces, and whose eyes were white and milky white.
She couldn't lift it.
She had to cut the mammoth elephant into pieces before she could get outside.
She imagined the jagged saw blade, the mess.
This is Tommy's fault.
What kind of silly son did she have?
This mammoth elephant does not belong here or anywhere.
Returning from extinction is a cruel television show. The cruelest.
Shirley is a clone, which means her replica was walking on Earth 10,000 years ago.
Shirley had parents and even children at first.
The original Shirley may have died in some sort of ice pond, avalanche, or tar pit.
After 10,000 years, scientists can clone a Mawmaw.
What will the world be like then?
Then a terrible thought is: What if today is still the seventh day of God and he has not yet woken up from rest?
This explains why he has been so quiet lately.
What if when he woke up on Sunday morning and he decided not to like what we were doing here?
Maybe he will be grumpy with us and put out all the lights again to get the world back into the dark.
In 10,000 years, the Earth may be cold and barren, more suitable than humans for the endless frozen wasteland of mammo elephant growth.
No matter who they are, if they really grow a new Mawmaw from a Petri dish, she can only hope that someone will put her in a warm room.
If Mawmaw is sick, she can only hope they do the right thing and call the doctor.
She found a vet on the Yellow Pages. His name is Dr. Mark Sing.
She promised to double his room rate and he came over that night.
His hair was black and shiny.
She wanted him to have a bag full of instruments and medicine.
He took off his bronze suit coat and put it on again.
The house is still cold.
Mawmaw's last electricity bill was astronomical.
"You must swear to me that you will not tell anyone what you see here," she said, shrugging as he had heard before.
"I'm serious," she said, writing on a blank piece of paper, and I'm not going to tell anyone. "Sign this.
I want it in writing.
"The man looks very tired.
He took off his glasses, rubbed his left eye with his palm, and the gold watch snuggled on his wrist.
He signed the paper and she led him to the hall and opened the door.
Mammoth elephant is nested in the bath towel.
Mawmaw did her best to clean the room.
Vanilla candles burn on the washing machine.
The plastic cloth under their feet wrinkled. Dr.
Singing made him speak, but he did not say a word.
He knelt next to the mammoth elephant, crossed his hair with his hand and stroked his knotted forehead.
Shirley doesn't seem to care. Mawmaw thinks this is a good phenomenon.
"May I ask you where it came from? " he says.
"How long have you been eating?
I'm sorry, but no.
Will she be okay?
He opened the bag and took out an electronic thermometer.
He took a few taps into his palm, as if not sure if he should continue.
Finally, he raised the thin tail of the mammoth and inserted it quickly.
Shirley's head jerked, ivory collided with the doctor's left shoulder and almost knocked him down.
The thermometer beeps.
He looked at Reading.
Mawmaw asked if it was high and he said he wasn't sure because he didn't know what was normal.
What he really needs, he says, is a blood sample for some testing, but Mawmaw is not allowed to do so.
He stood up from the floor and walked into the hall.
On the wall he saw a picture frame of Tommy in khaki cloth.
"He's the one on that show.
"Mawmaw does not answer.
As far as I know, it could be a huge flu.
"She did look dehydrated.
I think I can give her an IV.
"Mawmaw agreed that he should do this and that is the plan.
Luckily, Shirley did not protest when he inserted the needle. Mawmaw pays Dr.
Sing three times his usual fee and show him the paper again.
"Who will believe me anyway?
"He said and was checked.
The next morning, mammoth returned to her appetite.
Cook rice and yogurt with Mawmaw.
She put her in the yard and brushed her damn blonde coat over with a hard thread.
Mammoth seems to like to be brushed.
She then hovers on the edge of the property and takes root everywhere.
Mawmaw draws excess hair from the brush, stretching and curling between fingers.
"I can make a Shirley sweater.
I bet it will be warm.
"That night, Mawmaw was in bed when she heard the first wail.
She took a pill, but is now fully awake.
The mammoth made a long sound, almost shaking the house.
Maybe her crying is a reaction to the vet's visit and the liquid he gave the medicine, or maybe fever and dehydration are just some early symptoms of a deeper crisis.
Mawmaw waited for another one but it didn't come.
She may dream.
When it burst again, she was on the edge of her sleep, the slow, sad roar.
She pulled the blanket on her shoulder, put her veiny foot into her stupid slippers, and turned on each light switch on the way down the stairs.
In the laundry room, Shirley stared at the flower --
Print wallpaper and get as close to the wall as possible.
"What happened here?
"Mammoth does not move.
"You need to drink more water.
That's all.
You have the flu. You need sleep.
"One more pill in Mawmaw's pocket.
She took it into the kitchen and applied it with peanut butter.
When she took the peanut butter out to Shirley, it stuck to the food bucket.
The trunk of the mammoth grabbed the open space and stuffed it into the gray mouth.
"No matter what troubles you have, we can talk about it in the morning.
"She went back to bed and sat under the weight of the blanket.
A few minutes later, the mammoth repeated the sound, but this time, it ended with a few squeaky trumpets, rather than dragging into nothing.
Mawmaw considered turning on her TV but not. She's worried.
Maybe it's the mating season.
If so, how tragic.
Shirley was separated from her closest partner for 10,000 years.
Then there is another mourning.
The Mammoth elephant will only be released under the first ray of sunshine.
When Tommy finally called, the night shock of the mammoth elephant had happened for a week.
She could hear the street noise behind him.
He said he was sorry that she had to deal with Shirley in the past few months, but if mammoth elephant died of illness, maybe it was the best. For everyone.
The network has not yet found Samantha taking the mammoth elephant, but they have been monitoring her, he said. And on him.
That's why he couldn't bring Shirley back to Atlanta.
"I'm really starting to worry that I might have to go there in person and put euthanasia on her," he said . ".
"What will you do?
"My God, I don't know.
I think it's a shovel.
Or I can poison it.
"What does Samantha think about this ? "
"What, are you going to tell her?
"Mawmaw is quiet.
So her son will protect his girlfriend from tragedy, but not his own mother.
There is no doubt that they will bury Shirley in the backyard, and every time Mawmaw walks past the grave she must remember what her son did.
"Thankfully, I don't think it will happen," he said.
"Not if she gets sick. Right?
"There is no mention of Dr Mawmaw. Sing's visit.
She did not mention crying.
She did not tell him that Shirley's problem might not be physical but mental.
She made him think she wanted it to die too.
It's risky to call Pastor Frank, but Mawmaw is desperate.
Three years ago, Pastor Frank prayed for the body of a young girl with brain cancer. although the doctor's prognosis was terrible, the girl lived for another two years.
He arrived 5 minutes early and, without being asked, he took off his big black sneakers at the door.
He hugged her tightly and patted her on the back.
She served him coffee in the living room.
He said, "No, thank you . ""I get jumpy.
"He is checking the items in the spacious living room: Oil painting Portrait of baby Tommy on the wall, antique tea cart with porcelain teacup, her mother's old electronic organ, and the black pump pedal is thin.
He might want to know how Mawmaw can afford such a good living room with a meager church salary.
"My son bought me this house after I retired," she said . ".
"It's a surprise, believe me.
I did not ask.
"It's cute," he said.
"You look tired.
Is everything okay?
My dog is dying.
I can't sleep well.
"I am very sad to hear the news. Never easy.
I will still burst into tears.
Eyes on the bomelania who died two years ago.
Copperhead bit him.
"Did you pray for him ? """For the dog?
Things happen so fast.
He died in a few hours.
Do you have tea? Noncaffeinated?
"Of course," she said, and then walked into the kitchen.
When the water is heated and then when the tea bag is soaked in a Mickey Mouse cup, she imagines what will happen next, the moment of first contact.
She tried to imagine pastor Frank, when he put his warm hand on Shirley's tangled hair, the tarp under his knee crumpled.
She imagined his words as a light, almost liquid, forming a shell similar to Ambe around the body of the mammoth elephant.
She brought tea into the living room.
Pastor Frank was leaning against the electric pipe and tapping the key.
He didn't turn it on so it didn't make a sound.
She invited him to drink tea.
He continued: "You know, my wife and I don't have cable, but we 've heard a lot of shows about your son lately.
Is it true that they brought a Neanderthals back from their dead?
Two ways to think about these things.
"The priest's thin brown hair was brushed back with oil.
One of his fingers is low.
Flat, high. "Two scenarios.
In the first scene, God killed the Neanderthals because he wanted to do so, and so we brought one back, which was against his will.
In the second scene, there was never a creature like the Neanderthals,
The so-called fossil was put there by the devil himself.
Of course, the second situation is terrible, because it means that we are injecting life into the creation of the devil.
"Mawmaw can feel the pulse in her temple.
"They never brought back any caveman," she told him . ". "Only animals.
"That's all," he said, as if it solved the problem.
They sat in the back chair, face to face.
Mawmaw is not sure if she will continue with her plan.
After a long silence, he asked her if she would pray for her son.
Pastor Frank reached out.
How many times has she spoken in his hands in the last thirty years?
How many times has he put the light into the shadow in her heart?
He knew all the things that needed to be known: about every dirty encounter she had with Tommy's father;
About her experience of going to the clinic and what she almost did there, blue dresses and paper
The slippers are thin and almost non-existent.
Every dark dream, every dark thought;
She had doubts about God, about hell, about what happened next.
Pastor Frank is praying for her son.
He asked God to bring Tommy home again, to protect him from the evil forces of the world, and to reveal to Tommy the way back to God.
His words circled in the space above her head, a faint cloud in the night sky, broken and re-
Formed in the breeze of the atmosphere.
From below, her feet are firmly on the ground, and Mawmaw can reach out to get those clouds and poke them with her fingers if she wants, but she doesn't.
She repeated the words of Pastor Frank and borrowed their strength.
She recited her silent prayers, and she hoped that this time the focus was on the creatures in the next room, and that their two prayers worked together.
"Can you add my dog?
She interrupted me.
"Of course," he said.
"Do you want to bring her out?
"She's at the vet.
Pastor Frank smiled and pinched her hand again.
He spoke softly, almost whispering.
What's the name of the cute dog he asked God to look after?
Look after the lovely little Shirley Temple.
"Lord," he said, we praise all the beauty you have created, fish, birds, turtles, squirrels, cats and dogs, and even possum.
"The mourning of the night is endless.
The neighbor called to complain about the noise and Mawmaw blamed the TV for her poor hearing.
She tried it all night.
Light in the laundry room.
She tried to put a towel under all the doors to silence the sound.
She printed out photos of the tundra and other mammo elephants and taped them to the wall.
Some nights, half asleep, Mawmaw worried that the noise was coming from the catacombs of her own body.
She opened her mouth and looked forward to crying with a grain of salt.
She can only sleep in spurts.
She dreamed that Shirley was her guide in the world of ice and snow and in the unrecognizable scenery.
Every direction looks the same, but Shirley knows the way.
It's important where they're going, but Mawmaw can't remember why in the morning.
One night, she took three pills for the mammoth.
Four the next night.
However, they don't seem to have any effect regardless of the dose. What is it?
She asked in despair downstairs again, and the light was on again.
"What do you need me to do?
Is it mating season now?
I'm sorry to tell you this, but you have no one to mate.
You are alone.
You have to shut up.
I have tried everything I know.
I'm going crazy.
"She walked back into the hall and the door to Shirley's room was still open.
"Is that what you want? You want out? Here.
She opened the door to the backyard.
"Do whatever you need to do.
She stom went back to the stairs with her feet and climbed up the bed.
After midnight, thanks to God, the crying downstairs finally stopped.
It's not the noise that wakes her up in the morning, it's the light.
The Golden and yellow sun crawled slowly at the end of her bedspread.
She is sure that no morning shines in this special way.
She felt like she had slept for thousands of years.
Only when she went up the stairs wearing a bathrobe and slippers did she remember to leave all the doors to Shirley.
Mammoth is not in the laundry room or anywhere in the house.
"No matter where you are, come out.
Don't joke with me.
"She went outside to the sun and peeped under the edge of the porch in case Shirley managed to squeeze under.
The far corner is where the dog ends up going alone.
But mammoth is not there.
Nor is it anywhere in the yard, nor is it a dog pen.
Shirley escaped.
Of course, no one can ask for help except Tommy.
After a few loud noises, his voicemail was restored. "Call me back.
"It's about Shirley," she said vaguely.
As soon as she hung up the phone, she regretted the message.
Her son does not need to be involved if his solution is poison
Tie candy or spray-proof on your head with a shovel.
A disturbing image began to take shape: her Tommy, no longer handsome, but completely gone, the forehead of a swollen cave man, with a hunting spear in his dirty hand, he has several pieces of leaves on his long hair.
She climbed up her car and drove up and down the block, too scared to shout out Shirley's name.
On her two streets, she saw a huge shape next to a brick house, but when she approached, the shape was just some yellow pampas grass. On a cul-de-sac, a white-
The man in blue sportswear is walking on his Jack Russell terrier.
Seeing this man with his dog, the parallel rhythm of their pace, almost brought a tear to Mawmaw's eyes.
When she pulled up with the man, he leaned down and walked towards her open window.
"What happened? " he asks.
"Sorry, did you see anything strange this morning? "Like what?
"She doesn't know what to say. "I lost my dog. A real big one.
"It's a pity to hear the news.
"Have you tried animal control?
"I will," she said . ""Good idea.
"She drove home again and got on the phone.
"Look," she said, once she had a woman online.
"Did you get any strange calls this morning? ""Like what?
Asked the woman.
"For example, about a really big, sick hairy dog?
Woman take a deep breath.
"Madam, are you calling to report a big and hairy dog?
"Mawmaw hung up.
She opened a cabinet at breakfast but was not hungry.
Next to the grain box is a bucket of mixed nuts.
She turned over the TV in the upstairs bedroom.
She waited for Shirley to appear on the morning news, then the afternoon news and then the Evening News.
She went outside to smoke mint, but did not remember which end.
The ash on the brick under her feet was broken.
She took photos of Shirley on the upcoming interstate traffic beam.
She took pictures of her with the hunter's quasi-star, and then her head was stuffed up as a trophy.