Annie had managed to pull most of the paper out
of her mouth and throat and had gotten out through Pauls window while Paul was
sleeping the sleep of drugs.
He heard the kitchen screen door bang shut and eased the wheelchair close enough to the window so he could remain in an angle of shadow and still peek out.
Paul settled hands he could barely feel on the wheels and rolled the chair toward the hallway, sparing one glance at the ceramic penguin on its block of ice.
This comment, which would once have struck him as in a league with such banalities as You look so good I could just eat you up now seemed not banal at all.
He heard the kitchen screen door bang shut and eased the wheelchair close enough to the window so he could remain in an angle of shadow and still peek out.
Paul settled hands he could barely feel on the wheels and rolled the chair toward the hallway, sparing one glance at the ceramic penguin on its block of ice.
This comment, which would once have struck him as in a league with such banalities as You look so good I could just eat you up now seemed not banal at all.
He had thought she was putting on an editors hat - maybe even trying on
a collaborators chapeau, preparing to tell him what to write and how to write
it. Annie had managed to pull most of the paper out of her mouth and throat and
had gotten out through Pauls window while Paul was sleeping the sleep of
drugs.