Mindscan

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There wasn’t anything special about this fight. Honest to God, there wasn’t. Dad and I had argued a million times before, but nothing awful had happened. Oh, he’d thrown me out of the house a couple of times, and when I was younger he used to send me to my room or cut off my allowance. But nothing like this had ever occurred. I keep reliving the moment in my mind, haunted by it. It’s no consolation that he isn’t haunted by it, that he probably doesn’t even remember it. No consolation at all.

My father’s grandparents had made a fortune in the brewing industry—if you know Canada at all, you know Sullivan’s Select and Old Sully’s Premium Dark. We’d always had a shitload of money.

“Shitload.” That’s the way I talked back then; I guess remembering it is bringing back my old vocabulary. When I’d been a teenager, I didn’t care about money. In fact, I agreed with most Canadians that the profits made by big corporations were obscene. Even in supposedly egalitarian Canada, the rich were getting richer and the poor poorer, and I’d hated it. Back then, I’d hated a lot of things.

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