Teeny tiny short boltThe more people came to call on me, the more I hid away. This habit has always remained with me. I never appeared at shows. One had to make conversation, which terrified me. And I didn’t know how to sell; I’ve never known how to sell. When a customer insisted on seeing me, I went and hid in a cupboard. Within my filial breast shall beat. Oh Jesus, I can’t, I’m stuck. “You wanna stay the night?” she asked. ‘Positive. I’ve been watching all night.’ “Of course, Professor Moon,” he heard Alice say. “I leave you gentlemen to your . . . delicate affairs.” Kuwali, Ursa’s son, grinned and pushed Duncan up the steps and outside as Titus closed and barred the door, leaving the boy inside. “You staying alive in there, Mr. McCallum?” the butler asked through the knothole. My life with the very young human resembles those romantic comedies in which two people who don’t speak the same language still somehow fall in love. Like say, that movie I saw on an airplane with the wide-eyed Brazilian woman and the doofy American man who end up together, despite not being able to communicate via words. Or that series ofLouieepisodes, where Louie falls in love with a woman who only speaks Hungarian; he even proposes to her. Yes, it was like those comedies, only without the upsetting gender dynamic of the effectively mute female. Though with the same believability. And arguably the dynamic might still be considered upsetting. “Printing it cost me, like, forty-five dollars.” Of this he seemed proud. teeny tiny short bolt “We understand his bond is to Miss Sarah Ramsey,” Dickinson replied. She followed him down the stairs.“What is it, Duncan? Have we offended you somehow?” How am I supposed to know? Don’t ask me. I’m no Prescient Finna. “There,” I said. “Now you’re the last person I’ve kissed, no question about it.” How I look forward to meeting you, my sad friend, the man I searched for and found, without knowing what I’d found. “A right grand affair.”. |