nicole_krauss – blackandwhiteandcolours

If you look closely, you can see the rain falling.

I was sad to leave.

She knew it was time to go home.

Can you hear me? a disembodied voice asks.

From then on, they had remained close.

Come on, I said, you’re not serious.

I had never known her to lie.

Everything was a kind of game.

I’d got used to being mostly alone.

Everything was still stripped and bare.

I didn’t know what to do with it.