Carmita

Carmita grinned like a bright-eyed fox and waved goodbye as the Toyota tried to lay rubber down the street.

MYTHO-THERAPY ON THE BLINK Dennis Hiatt 2009

Jack didn't mind so much because he caught enough glimpses of skin when Carmita bent over or uncrossed her slim, hairy legs, to keep him in the bathroom half the night.

MYTHO-THERAPY ON THE BLINK Dennis Hiatt 2009

Carmita and their father picked them up after class.

MYTHO-THERAPY ON THE BLINK 2009

But what was totally the worst, Carmita wouldn't let them listen to their records or practice their guitar and drums in the basement.

MYTHO-THERAPY ON THE BLINK Dennis Hiatt 2009

        The first Sunday after Carmita became Mrs. Woodman, she dressed the twins in their Sunday best, drug them off to eight o'clock Mass, then enrolled them in catechism class.

MYTHO-THERAPY ON THE BLINK 2009

  Carmita grinned like a bright-eyed fox and waved goodbye as the Toyota tried to lay rubber down the street.

MYTHO-THERAPY ON THE BLINK 2009

  It also turned out that all Carmita did was lay around the little house on Kansas Street in a bathrobe with Elvis's face on the back, watching Mexican soap operas on TV. and listening to what Jack and Jill called her Cockroach records.

MYTHO-THERAPY ON THE BLINK 2009

        Jack didn't mind so much because he caught enough glimpses of skin when Carmita bent over or uncrossed her slim, hairy legs, to keep him in the bathroom half the night.

MYTHO-THERAPY ON THE BLINK 2009

  The kids, Jack and Jill, liked the food at Los Chili Peppers a lot, so they closed their eyes and tried to overlook the fact that Carmita was a jiggly, taco-breathed tramp who, at twenty, was only six years older than them.

MYTHO-THERAPY ON THE BLINK 2009

  But what was totally the worst, Carmita wouldn't let them listen to their records or practice their guitar and drums in the basement.

MYTHO-THERAPY ON THE BLINK 2009