In fact, I can't think of much I'd like better than for him to step into the room right now, glasses fogged and smelling of damp wool, shaking the rain from his hair like an old dog and saying: 'Dicki...
Sometimes when there's been an accident and reality is too sudden and strange to comprehend, the surreal will take over
Occasionally a car swooshed by in the rain and its headlights would swing round momentarily and illuminate the room-the pool table, snowshoes on the wall and the rowing machine, the armchair in which...
Out in the country it was not uncommon to discover that she had slipped away, alone, out to the lake, maybe, or down to the cellar, where once I found her sitting in the big marooned sleigh, reading,...
We had not spoken about the incident in my room several nights before and, in the drowsy silence of the car, I felt the need to make things plain.You know, Francis, I said.What?It seemed the best thin...
Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.
Are you always up this early?' I asked him.'Almost always,' he said without looking up. 'It's beautiful here, but morning light can make the most vulgar things tolerable.
Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones I did not.
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