Back to my room where I rooted about in luggage and found a few coins, enough to spring open a circuit at the pay phone and gain the ear of an operator. She dialed the number in Little Rock. Home is the place where, when you have to call it collect, they have to accept the charges. My mother answered. The operator told her that this was a collect call from her first-born son Charles, in Laredo, Texas. Would she accept the charges? My mother, not always attentive, said, Im sorry, hes not here, hes down in Mexico somewhere, and hung up, before I could gather my wits and shout to her. — Charles Portis on motels, from Issue 43, now available to read on our website.
Posted on: Fri, 04 Apr 2014 14:47:00 +0000
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