Peddling Bub

First published in STORY

Trish is the community dopehead and bad mother, out on a winter evening to give Bub, her third child away. Her last stop is at her x-inlaws, who have taken Trish's two little girls the year before. Trish, smoking her final cigarette, displays her Bub's burns and bruises on his backside. Who did it? She doesn't know...so she makes up a story.