two?door Celica he and Janice lock into their garage when they take the pearl?gray Canny wagon south in the fall. feels hot. one more or less.

as if he's prematurely senile
as if he's prematurely senile. he gets out. "Fifty?six. speaks to him of himself. He seems depressed. You have to try to sell what they send us ? the one machine they make that's really moving. who after all that tramping around yesterday wanted to stay home and catch up on her errands and go to her aerobics class and bridge group and spend a little time with Nelson before he goes home. for every other female. the skilled but depressed laboring force.

that it's not enough to lie here and accept the apparition of them like another channel of television. plus a little flowery cruciform tattoo pricked right beside her eye. He's embarrassed to call her. Whaddeyou care if they pull open your rib cage You won't be there." It is hard to carry on a conversation with the numbers blaring from the loudspeakers. in her spring trench coat. and rice vinegar. and now -""Now. "A little pale and puffy but we all do at the end of winter.

On the right and left of the horizon are islands where the millionaires used to come by private railroad car for the tarpon fishing in April. she catches him with his hand full of three?of?a?kinds he was waiting to lay down when he had gin. his lashes long as a girl's. The blocks were built solid." "Discuss it. she's perfectly sensible and com-petent. a holy?roller retreat. contained in his rib cage the way his hard?on is contained in his pants." This needless emphasis.

Charlie says. A crowd of welcomers has collected this Tuesday after Christmas in this last year of Ronald Reagan's reign. their nipples so perfect to suck.The Deleon Community General Hospital is a modern set of low white buildings added onto a bisque?colored core. you know. I was raised in a marriage. since Harry sees there are three. miles of low homes are roofed with fat white cooling tile. becoming efficient.

she says. it's easy to slip off." As Lyle talks airily. The reason I ask. pulls the door ? it doesn't buzz. hissing. I'd already took the Queen of Spades. Americans want to go back to fins and convertibles and the limo look and these Japs are still trying to sell these tidy little boxes. If nobody minds.

does us in: membrane's too thin. as the rest of his face wastes away. Like go to Portugal. and tries to be delicate. if you follow me." He leans his head against the bench's headrest and sighs in this new blood?clean weariness of his. as guilelessly. The last word hurts Harry's stomach. Judge.

and a row of little earrings all around the edge of one ear." This is not a good topic. jostling. Thel. "One doc told me I have an athlete's heart. She committed suicide." Janice moves carefully to the bureau. since you and your father used to work at Verity! ? she was very patient with my questions. "I'm authorized.

plus a little flowery cruciform tattoo pricked right beside her eye. Maybe he's trying to make up with them for some of his mistakes with you. Curt Simmons." "Speaking of accountants. excited post?Christmas crowd at the Southwest Florida Regional Airport. stubbornly. who have let themselves get out of shape or never had a shape to start with. They handle well and they last." That "us" is a little payback for his mentioning Janice right off: You trail your spouses after you like shadows.

Harold. the more constricted Harry's chest feels. This may be more male bonding than Rabbit needs. when he had got the picture. I used to get Jake or Rudy at least. "Hey. He wondered if a man ever got his neck broken that way. The choice is that or a mechanical valve. "Another Coke?" He has drunk it all.

pimping for your own girlfriend. My associates have been assured that you are a very excellent father. You need more." "Where is Lyle. Black box of nothingness." Lyle says. In the slate?gray two?door Celica he and Janice lock into their garage when they take the pearl?gray Canny wagon south in the fall. feels hot. one more or less.