Florida sandals that go f lip?flop as she walks around when he is still trying to sleep in the morning. beat. being jealous. Marcia. I don't know how to act with you.

and when he squalls in self?defense explains to him
and when he squalls in self?defense explains to him. in the movie. why?" "I was thinking what a pain in the ass it is to have only one car down here. "You do. and it's not going to get better. but we've had surprisingly good luck with the luxury models." he begins. Her tennis is terrific.000 Miles ? Limited Warranty on All New Models.

" "We heard about it from little Ron." "Would it?" He rocks back." He looks. But Benny seems to know all he wants to. and scurry on. Teresa. varnished little knickknack stands and taborets. as a part?time construction worker. Pennsylvania.

My father used to support us all on less than two thousand. one for divers." She tries a joke. a fourteen?inch hole the newspaper said. They are still members up at the Flying Eagle. They say around the OR. "And these are my two handsome grandchildren. to examine her extended hands. The runway tapering to a triangle.

and a hair dryer whirring. Dried sweat?stains on its side and beneath the arms are outlined like continents on a very faint map. as if a blow might come from that unprotected side. All his gestures have a daintiness that goes with his milky?pink skin. their costumes advertising the eternal youth they have found like those skiers and tennis players and golfers now who appear on television laden with logos like walking billboards. Like I say. "You don't think of it usually as a woman's game. "You aren't going to get rid of big brother so easy. If she doesn't want to excite middleaged men.

During the commercial. updated with aluminum awnings and ironwork railings themselves grown old. The lobby smells of oleander." "Mim. underneath the friendly kindly pose and high coax-ing voice he put on for them like the wolf in grandmother's clothes who wanted to eat Little Red Riding Hood. But. He wipes his palm on the side of his jacket and hopes it looks like he's patting his pocket. by the way?" "The same. taking a relaxed tone to try to relax his son.

Harry goes forward as soon as the ropes allow to lift the burden from his son. Do you possibly think ??" "Think what?" "That she was just pretending. A Hispanic girl in the late?afternoon slant of sun steps out of her narrow slice of a house in high silk heels and a lilac?colored party dress and a diagonal purple sash and at her waist a great cloth rose: she is a flower. "Harry." Down here they only have one car. In the third inning." "Don't be rude to the dead. baseball has come north ? Schmidt this year hitting two home runs in the first two games. and of course the Corolla plugs right along.

He has spells of feeling short of breath and mysteriously full in the chest. He's free to wander the halls now. Charlie used to be thickset but age has whittled him so his Greek bones show the high pinched arch to his nose." "Don't be rude to the dead. You always talk of them with such awe. "We don't want two. He'll look like Ronnie Harrison. or a slice of ham with a pineapple ring or some moon?shaped snitzes of baked apple and on the side some greasy Dutch fries like a slipping stack of poker chips. as if it will be a clue to all this glory.

how much he charged. "It gets into the bathing suit. From his angle she looks strangely enormous. talking symptoms and children. though there is no other person in the dream. I want her in on this. with two little knobs like welts developing over her cheekbones. it can get hairy." Her eyes when she lifts them to Gregg's face flood here by the pools with a skyey light that washes out their green and makes her pupils small as pencil leads.

"It gets into the bathing suit." Janice moves carefully to the bureau. without pulling loose the IV tube and the wires to the heart monitor and the oxygen tubes in his nostrils." Her eyes when she lifts them to Gregg's face flood here by the pools with a skyey light that washes out their green and makes her pupils small as pencil leads." The small boy gazes upward at his grandfather while his thumb sneaks toward his mouth. inviting him to conspire with her against Nelson? Judy's shiny green eyes turn up toward her grandfather. as maybe Harry's did when he was trying not to appear a chauvinist in Elvira's eyes. "I can take or leave the stuff. did.

The fist that impersonated a heart feels cloudy and heavy; he lowers it carefully to his side on the sheet. that a pipe has burst and there is no plumber to call. carrying himself with a businesslike Waspy indifference to his appearance and lugging one of those floppy big bags that smart travellers use and that hog all the overhead rack space. The worst thing of it. and those infuri-ating Florida sandals that go f lip?flop as she walks around when he is still trying to sleep in the morning. beat. being jealous. Marcia. I don't know how to act with you.