Tag: stone

An airless room.
He drew his hand away, and it would reach out again.
He kept reaching toward the wall.
He had never stopped to study the wall.
You feel as though you had made a personal discovery.
It was the threat of force that you heard.
It was like a dance, a crazy kind of dance.
Shhh! Don’t tell anybody, friend, but – I’m in love.
What kind of answer is that?
And strangely enough, he found it delightful.
Remembering the old loves, the old hates, for the last hundred years.
But you came back here, anyway?
I would conquer the world.
I made up my mind then that someday I would conquer the world – don’t ask me what world.
It looked very small and faint and faraway in the dark sky.
I began to wonder if there were other things I hadn’t known about.
How the hell did we get here anyway?
And you know it. You can’t kid me.
During the day lean cats napped in the dense shade.
It was so deadly quiet.
There were so many things she hadn’t said to him.
It was like trying to look into the future.
Forget it as though it had never occurred.
Acknowledging their pain, commiserating with each other.
They appeared to be holding a silent conversation.
He strained his eyes in the dark of the room.
It doesn’t make that much difference to me.
No. He just wanted her. He was intrigued by her.
Was he in love with her? He examined his feeling about her with care.
Yeah, he thought. That’s what it is.
None of it means nothing.
The wind puffed the white nightgown out around her feet.