as a bird or squirrel backs off from the brusque movements of the feeder—involuntary, instinctive.
The light through that door ajar comes to me again in luminous vision.
Seeing Charlie huddled beneath the covers I wish I could give him comfort, explain to him that he has done nothing wrong,
that it is beyond him to change his mother's attitude back to what it was before his sister came.
There on the bed, Charlie did not understand what they were saying, but now it hurts.
If I could reach out into the past of my memories, I would make her see how much she was hurting me.
This is no time to go to her. Not until I've had time to work it out for myself.
Fortunately, as a precaution, I withdrew my savings from the bank as soon as I arrived in New York.
Eight hundred and eighty-six dollars won't last long, but it will give me time to get my bearings.
I've checked into the Camden Hotel on 41st Street, a block from Times Square.
New York! All the things I've read about it! Gotham... the melting pot... Baghdad-on-the-Hudson.
City of light and color. Incredible that I've lived and worked all my life just a few stops away on the subway and been to Times Square only once—with Alice.
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