"The Visitor"
by Marisa Silver
Rating: 7.6
Short story about Candy, a recently hired nurse’s aide at a V.A. hospital. Candy had been a nurse’s aide for six months. Mentions that Candy’s mother Sylvie used drugs. Candy was not skinny like her mother; she had her grandmother Marjorie’s build.
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a favorite line:
But she did understand the phrase "elective muteness." She stared at El Lobo, feeling words crawling up inside her, pushing her to get past her closed lips—that pathetic human need to communicate when there was nothing to say. She had been this way when her mother was alive.
another:
He finally looked at her, and his glance was sharp and full of menace. The ease with which his expression resolved into hatred made it clear that anger was his default position.
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