Dandelion and the Witch
By Olivia Snowe and Michelle Lamoreaux
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Dandelion and the Witch - Olivia Snowe
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~1~
Jessamine Wood knelt on the cold tile floor of her apartment’s tiny bathroom. Her feet stuck out the open doorway into the hall.
Oh no,
she said quietly.
Then she said it louder. Her moans of agony and dread echoed off the bathroom walls and floated out to the rest of the apartment.
Her husband, Bodhi, called from the kitchen. I can take the night off. They’ll never miss me!
Jessamine tried to reply, but she felt too sick.She heard his footsteps approaching on the creaky wood floor. Don’t come in here!
she said. Please. Also, you can’t stay home today. We can’t afford for you to miss work.
Bodhi sighed, but he didn’t argue. Jessamine hadn’t been able to work in weeks. Without Bodhi’s two jobs, they’d be out in the street.
Thinking about money made her sick again. She felt her husband’s hand on her back, and, after wiping her mouth with the back of her hand, snarled at him, I said don’t come in here.
Sorry,
Bodhi said. He held down a glass of cold water. I wanted to say good night. I’d better get going if I’m going.
Jessamine took the glass with a quiet thank-you and sipped slowly. What time will you be home tonight?
she said. As the cold water rushed through her empty system, she felt a series of tiny kicks in her belly.
I’m on till three,
Bodhi said. Franklin can’t take his shift. His grandmother is dying.
Again?
Jessamine said. She put down the glass and put out her hands so her husband could help her to her feet. Her head swam a bit as she stood. It always did.
For the sixth time this year,
Bodhi said. He kissed his wife on the forehead. Get some sleep.
She almost laughed. She couldn’t remember the last time she’d gotten more than an hour of shut-eye at a stretch.
Instead of trying to sleep in their stuffy apartment with no air-conditioning, Jessamine grabbed an empty paper bag from under the kitchen sink, slipped on her flip-flops, and followed her husband out into the night.
It was a ten-block walk to the discount movie theater. She didn’t care what they were showing. She’d enjoy the air-conditioning, see as many movies as she could till the last one ended around two, and then she’d head home.
She’d done this before, nearly every time her husband had to cover the late-late shift.
Tonight the theater was showing an old animated movie she’d seen a hundred times. Still, it reminded her of being a kid. She stayed and watched the six o’clock showing, the nine o’clock showing, and the midnight showing. She cried the hardest the last time, even though she’d already seen it twice that night.
When the midnight showing was over, Jessamine was hungry.
The Woods lived in a busy neighborhood. Even at this hour, several businesses’ doors stood open, letting their air-conditioning waft over the late-night sidewalks. Some of those open doors also released the scents of delicious-smelling food.
There was the doughnut shop at the corner of Eighth Street. There was Mario’s All-Night Pizza on Sycamore Avenue. There was the noodle shop at Fifteenth Street, just a block from Jessamine’s apartment. Some nights, even inside with the windows closed, all she could smell was fish sauce and green onions.
But tonight, none of it smelled delicious. It was all she could do to hold her breath as she passed these places. She reached her apartment building, still gasping with hunger, but unable to think of a single thing she wanted to eat.
Standing in front of her building, digging through her huge purse for her keys, Jessamine caught a whiff of something. It was something familiar but exciting. It was strange and new but earthy and everlasting.
Dandelions. Their little yellow heads had closed for the night, but their greens, shaped like lion’s teeth, grew like . . . well, like weeds all over the apartment building’s front lawn.
Jessamine’s heart pounded. For the first time since she’d been pregnant, she knew what she wanted. She wanted dandelion leaves.
Before she