POISON KANDIE
(Stories)
Frozen Tacos
By: THIRTEENTWO
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The cancer was eating him alive; he was dying and he knew it. The treatments were slowing things down, but he was fighting a battle that was already lost. His doctors were optimistic. They said all the right things to keep him coming back for help. He just didn't know if they were saying all the right things for the money or because they knew something he didn't. After the treatments, he picked up two soft shell tacos from Taco Bell. It was a routine he followed religiously. Actually, it was his only real contact with other people all week. His daughter was only around long enough to drop off groceries and clean a few things. He had no other friends anymore, they all moved away or were dead. He always bought two tacos. It�s how much he could eat when the treatments started. Now he couldn't stomach more than half of one at a single sitting. Half of one when he got home and the other half for dinner later that night. He was a regular at the taco place. Most of the employees knew him, and the ones who didn't got to know him after a few visits. They didn't even bother to ask him what he wanted, just assumed it was the same as usual. He told them he was doing better, getting better, took his purchase and went home. He never had the heart to tell them that he was having a hard enough time finishing one taco these days, much less eating two. But he cherished the contact too much to spoil things. He didn't want them to know anything was wrong. The second taco always went into the freezer where it was forgotten. Maybe he'd eat it later, he tried to be optimistic too. They piled up and he always meant to throw them out but he never quite got to it. After the cancer finally took him, his daughter who never spent much time around found all the tacos in the freezer. They hurt her heart more than anything else and she cried, really cried for the first time since he passed. |
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