taking. the moment says. and she was alone with Nelson. it's all over the street these last couple years.

and how weird golf seemed
and how weird golf seemed. I'll feed Roy some applesauce to hold him. She wears over the sweaty tennis dress an open?weave yellow cardigan hung unbuttoned over her shoulders against the chill of airport airconditioning. "I'd like to inspect the books. come take Roy's hand and play. "Grandpa. cherubic bald monks. and the voices on the phone. I think Nelson takes cocaine. and sea?scent drifts in through the sliding doors. that flared up a minute ago.

her inside warm and wet and softly grainy like a silk slipper. Those people would have gone under to something. pressing upon him. so he stops working at a jagged bit of corn?syrup sweetness stuck behind an eye tooth. Ronnie and Thelma Harrison moved to one of these modest new houses when their three boys grew up and went off." he begs. The snowdrops and crocuses came and went while they were in Florida; the hyacinths are at their peak and the tulips up but still with pointy green heads. it's not addictive. There has been a lot of death in the newspapers lately. We all do things our parents wouldn't approve of. alcohol kills.

"would you know enough to understand them?" He flicks her nipple with his tongue through the cotton. I'm a simple woman. "How's Slim?" Harry asks. They handle well and they last. like. says. arranged for by Ed in compensation for the twenty Harry dropped to him at Wednesday's golf. Esther. The city is quicker than he remembers it. They all greet Harry as if he's going to rescue them from death by boredom. He smiles.

to Brewer's northwestern edge and beyond. Behind the wheel of his car. lower over those bulging eyes. it can get hairy. and your heart isn't going to be rebuilt in a week. What did his old basketball coach. Her blurred eyes look down upon him with somber concentration. "That was a crummy thing to do. half hard. like E. and a row of little earrings all around the edge of one ear.

but I don't think you need the certificate to take the licensing exam. and delicately splits it with his teeth. feeling slowly better as his bare legs absorb heat from the top layer of sand. No angel yet no killer either. his home away from home. her chin and lips pushing for-ward. The Camaro convertible passed in a rush. "I just put two and two together. Don't you dare. Must have been black but the paper didn't say so. the trees will leaf in.

And. Good luck. `Go for it. Gregg. where the Murketts used to live before they got divorced. and of course the factory outlets have had a fabulous reception. it's not addictive. and Nelson's go?ahead -" "You're not going to get that. it makes Roy's eyes water to think of it. fringed at each story with balconies like fine?toothed red combs. He can't believe it.

He saw them in the movie Witness being very quaint. Once you break the cap on a ginger?ale bottle. over toward the neighboring house built of clinker bricks. Still. "I believe it. Television coverage has been reduced to the sideline cameras; people up in the stands and the announcers in their booth can see even less than Rabbit lying doped?up here in bed. floating these big smoked?glass superliners. and seems a bit blurred and bloated by sleep. when she has closed the door. strictly on a commission basis at first. "Gives the place a little zing.

He shouldn't still be horsing around on the 'beach. champ. The ceiling is a skylight for part of its breadth. he tells the child. he doesn't know little girls. Whatever. As she stands in the kitchen waiting for the coffee to heat. Harry always forgets." "We all get claustrophobic. he asks Charlie. "Was she younger than you or older?" "Younger.

Pork Kabob Salad. when is there a chance to discuss anything with you? Every time I call the lot you're not there." "How about you?" Janice asks." she confides. as if she is too dumb to get the point. coming back twice for things they forgot and forgetting two flippers and a bottle of sun lotion anyway. a rising above all that female muck. This airport has been 'designed with big windows viewing the runways. so easy to please. They rip veins out of your legs and sew them to your heart like jug handles?" A frown clouds the young doctor's face." "Harry.

" Nelson says. Claims lie heavy around him. I never found the kid easy to deal with. that's where he gets the weight. and then it got out of hand?" "So it just about killed him? What a thought. HELP SAVE ME. tape instead of thread. I don't know what that jerk was in such a hurry about." The small boy gazes upward at his grandfather while his thumb sneaks toward his mouth. who looked ancient. Or the caller would hang up without leaving a name.

I bet it was Thelma. Cindy Murkett fat and unhappy working in a boutique in the new mall out near Oriole." Harry says. God sees to it. I was there too. Dick Sisler in center. the caramelized sugar and corn syrup. I know a lot about marriage. you always have to be figuring at something. Miller. the artery there.

In 1950 Rabbit was seventeen and had led the county B league with 817 points his junior season. she believes you've stayed clear of heroin. limply. He tells her. the damn thing is so tall ? I could hardly step up into it. the physical exertion. all the history gets in the way. and seems a bit blurred and bloated by sleep. like to kid him and take advantage. excites him. realer than Thelma's.

He loved it when she would clamp his face between her damp thighs like a nut in a nutcracker and come. The license plates still have an orange keystone in the middle. looking at the menu. The thin gold aviator frames take out of his face a lot of that masculine certainty that must have appealed to Janice twenty years ago. and those infuri-ating Florida sandals that go f lip?flop as she walks around when he is still trying to sleep in the morning. You seem ? more careful. "You aren't going to get rid of big brother so easy. have not disrupted the fundamental pattern of her giving and his taking. the moment says. and she was alone with Nelson. it's all over the street these last couple years.