Chapter 14A fierce binge laid the old man low. Virtually incapacitated him. He hadn’t come home in that condition since we got to Phoenix. Maybe me getting starch in my backbone was eating at him. He didn’t have the iron grip on the family he once had. Whoa, hold up there. Better not get overconfident.
He’d be relatively harmless for the next couple of days, but when his hangover really hit, things would get ugly. I’d have to come straight home from work for the next week or so.
Excited by what I had accomplished with the warrior’s head, I started to work on a young woman as a companion piece. Anchored to the apartment by my father’s glowering presence, I was able to get in a lot of work on the bust. This time I purposely split the head in two parts, doing one side in walnut and the othe
