{"id":238,"date":"2016-01-28T11:30:34","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T17:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/?p=238"},"modified":"2016-01-28T11:30:34","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T17:30:34","slug":"keep-on-waiting-kid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/2016\/01\/28\/keep-on-waiting-kid\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep on Waiting Kid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Richard Dubus<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The phone buzzed and showed the text saying, \u201cGoing to the store. Be there after.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I replied fast with, \u201cI missed you. I can\u2019t wait to see you.\u201d On the screen, three dots appeared, shuffling, but went away.<\/p>\n<p>I reached for the sun god-scented body spray, and misted it on my tee shirt. She hated the one I used to use. I wanted to clean the clutter up a little before she came and noticed a few unpacked bags remaining on the swept tile floor.<\/p>\n<p>I sat on the sofa and put my feet on the table while I waited for her to text back. It reminded me of the last time we were together at the end-of-semester party at my friend\u2019s house. We made out on the glass table in the shed. The glass broke and we fell through and hit the cold cement floor. She laughed and I took out a speckle of glass caught in her tawny hair. Her hair always smelled like cheap strawberry shampoo, but I liked anyway. Her smile stretched the mole on her cheek. Mosquitoes could be fossilized in those amber eyes that looked down at me.<\/p>\n<p>My phone still had not vibrated, and I bit my fingertips because the nails were already chewed down. There was a knock, and I opened the door. The \u201cWelcome Back\u201d poster was still taped over the peephole. She walked in, and I went to kiss her. She turned her head quickly and nudged me away to arm\u2019s length.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cListen,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Richard Dubus The phone buzzed and showed the text saying, \u201cGoing to the store. Be there after.\u201d I replied fast with, \u201cI missed you. I can\u2019t wait to see you.\u201d On the screen, three dots appeared, shuffling, but went away. I reached for the sun god-scented body spray, and misted it on my tee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Keep on Waiting Kid - Mosaic Literary Magazine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/2016\/01\/28\/keep-on-waiting-kid\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Keep on Waiting Kid - Mosaic Literary Magazine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Richard Dubus The phone buzzed and showed the text saying, \u201cGoing to the store. Be there after.\u201d I replied fast with, \u201cI missed you. I can\u2019t wait to see you.\u201d On the screen, three dots appeared, shuffling, but went away. I reached for the sun god-scented body spray, and misted it on my tee [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/2016\/01\/28\/keep-on-waiting-kid\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Mosaic Literary Magazine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-01-28T17:30:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"ÐÓ°É´«Ã½ State\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"ÐÓ°É´«Ã½ State\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/2016\/01\/28\/keep-on-waiting-kid\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/2016\/01\/28\/keep-on-waiting-kid\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"ÐÓ°É´«Ã½ State\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/#\/schema\/person\/073e094613b8d622621e55e100baecd3\"},\"headline\":\"Keep on Waiting Kid\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-01-28T17:30:34+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/2016\/01\/28\/keep-on-waiting-kid\/\"},\"wordCount\":265,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"Fiction\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/2016\/01\/28\/keep-on-waiting-kid\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/2016\/01\/28\/keep-on-waiting-kid\/\",\"name\":\"Keep on Waiting Kid - Mosaic Literary Magazine\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2016-01-28T17:30:34+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/2016\/01\/28\/keep-on-waiting-kid\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/2016\/01\/28\/keep-on-waiting-kid\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/2016\/01\/28\/keep-on-waiting-kid\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Keep on Waiting Kid\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/\",\"name\":\"Mosaic Literary Magazine\",\"description\":\"\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Mosaic Literary Magazine\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/88\/2025\/04\/cropped-cropped-Jaci-Header-JPEG.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/88\/2025\/04\/cropped-cropped-Jaci-Header-JPEG.jpg\",\"width\":490,\"height\":164,\"caption\":\"Mosaic Literary Magazine\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/#\/schema\/person\/073e094613b8d622621e55e100baecd3\",\"name\":\"ÐÓ°É´«Ã½ State\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3328047cdfb3020290ce068d6fb7721f49d0439b10d4d4484fd91e22681411a4?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3328047cdfb3020290ce068d6fb7721f49d0439b10d4d4484fd91e22681411a4?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3328047cdfb3020290ce068d6fb7721f49d0439b10d4d4484fd91e22681411a4?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"ÐÓ°É´«Ã½ State\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/author\/webmanager\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Keep on Waiting Kid - Mosaic Literary Magazine","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/2016\/01\/28\/keep-on-waiting-kid\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Keep on Waiting Kid - Mosaic Literary Magazine","og_description":"By Richard Dubus The phone buzzed and showed the text saying, \u201cGoing to the store. Be there after.\u201d I replied fast with, \u201cI missed you. I can\u2019t wait to see you.\u201d On the screen, three dots appeared, shuffling, but went away. I reached for the sun god-scented body spray, and misted it on my tee [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/2016\/01\/28\/keep-on-waiting-kid\/","og_site_name":"Mosaic Literary Magazine","article_published_time":"2016-01-28T17:30:34+00:00","author":"ÐÓ°É´«Ã½ State","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"ÐÓ°É´«Ã½ State","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/2016\/01\/28\/keep-on-waiting-kid\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/2016\/01\/28\/keep-on-waiting-kid\/"},"author":{"name":"ÐÓ°É´«Ã½ State","@id":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/#\/schema\/person\/073e094613b8d622621e55e100baecd3"},"headline":"Keep on Waiting Kid","datePublished":"2016-01-28T17:30:34+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/2016\/01\/28\/keep-on-waiting-kid\/"},"wordCount":265,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/#organization"},"articleSection":["Fiction"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/2016\/01\/28\/keep-on-waiting-kid\/","url":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/2016\/01\/28\/keep-on-waiting-kid\/","name":"Keep on Waiting Kid - Mosaic Literary Magazine","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/#website"},"datePublished":"2016-01-28T17:30:34+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/2016\/01\/28\/keep-on-waiting-kid\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/2016\/01\/28\/keep-on-waiting-kid\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/2016\/01\/28\/keep-on-waiting-kid\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Keep on Waiting Kid"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/","name":"Mosaic Literary Magazine","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/#organization","name":"Mosaic Literary Magazine","url":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/88\/2025\/04\/cropped-cropped-Jaci-Header-JPEG.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/88\/2025\/04\/cropped-cropped-Jaci-Header-JPEG.jpg","width":490,"height":164,"caption":"Mosaic Literary Magazine"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/#\/schema\/person\/073e094613b8d622621e55e100baecd3","name":"ÐÓ°É´«Ã½ State","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3328047cdfb3020290ce068d6fb7721f49d0439b10d4d4484fd91e22681411a4?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3328047cdfb3020290ce068d6fb7721f49d0439b10d4d4484fd91e22681411a4?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3328047cdfb3020290ce068d6fb7721f49d0439b10d4d4484fd91e22681411a4?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"ÐÓ°É´«Ã½ State"},"url":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/author\/webmanager\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}