salesman. Pru. If Thelma had been healthy. Eyes muddier than Pru's but also what they call hazel." "You look exhausted. as simple as plumbing with plastic pipe.

He wants to ask one of them the name of these trees
He wants to ask one of them the name of these trees. the varnished shelf where his teddy bears sat. He wipes his palm on the side of his jacket and hopes it looks like he's patting his pocket. I hate the way he's going bald." "Your daddy ??" He thinks midway he shouldn't bring it up." Harry tells her. He swings a golf club like a cripple. swallowed by an unprecedented fog blowing in off Lake Michigan. His fragility gives him a new hold over her.

the laborers of old hand?dug a great trench to bring the railroad tracks into the city. You don't get the stares any more. The classes meet three hours a week for ten weeks. has cost a fortune over the years. though his mouth is open. he says. with the benefits and bonuses." "There aren't?" "You could argue it's a variable. He remembers the sticky grip of her fingers in his when Mom and Pop would lead them on their Sunday walk.

and do more for you. His yell when it comes arrives at full volume; against its sonic background Judy explains to them all. This is still spring. one more or less. With her lupus. Stuff at the drugstore. That's young. Judy. So for a while there was a rash of salads and low?cal pasta and fish and fowl back in the condominium; but whenever he gets into the Mead Hall he can order what he wants.

deeper into her darkness where things began to shudder and respond. if they hit a rock or pothole she'll go flying with him and the bike on top of her grinding her into the asphalt and ruining her pretty face forever. Pru?" Hauled back from a politely smiling daze. To work it all through his system he usually has a second beer. a tall grinning woman. The knife in the rubbergloved hand made a straight line and on either side yellow fat curled up and away like two strips of foam rubber. Within a hospital you feel there is no other world. People love the Camry. "What are they doing to you now?" she asks.

"Is it hot there yet? How about you coming east to get away from the heat for a couple of weeks? We'll put you up in the guest room above the den and you'll get to know your great?niece and ?nephew. you've washed your hands of the car business and glad of it. Harry. Rabbit. You take care of yourself. they do it every day now. I was stuck. No angel yet no killer either. "What's going to happen?" She sits in a chair near his bed.

"SUN AND MOON. which in reality just got rid of its old dictator with the German name. There his class. Also. Ohio. a crack in metal." Janice pronounces at last. The Land Cruiser is a dog. in a voice that sounds like her mother's.

" "I know." "You dope. too. and has been replaced with a handful of baking soda in a department storage box. in a shirt that chafed his neck like it had been starched in lye. He nuzzles one breast and closes his eyes again. into the little windowless room and picks up the folding cot. superior. or do people talk a little differently.

A female car salesman." "I say. somebody's been poisoning your mind against Nelson. "and another thing I was wondering about. Sell like Superman. of Indians and conquistadores and barefoot mailmen who served the mosquito?plagued coastal settlements. the heart gets tired of lugging it all around. we have Russian. swordfish Cajun style and fillets of sole stuffed with mussels.

Janice and Pru glance toward one another and then Pru volunteers. My father used to support us all on less than two thousand. a Camaro seems to have a mouth. You her age. but you've been terrific. 326." she tells him. where they have the TV and the comfortable wicker chairs and a low round glass table they often eat dinner from. virtually blinds you with its towering space and light.

And. looks like another customer out there. She didn't sound happy to hear from him. A female car salesman. Pru. If Thelma had been healthy. Eyes muddier than Pru's but also what they call hazel." "You look exhausted. as simple as plumbing with plastic pipe.