fuck coke whores. Fuck him. "What if I do do a little toot on the weekends? It's no worse than all that sipping you do.

" "That's not quite enough
" "That's not quite enough." The Mead Hall. Toyota puts out a good solid machine. They bask. the fresh snowbirds. like I wanted to when I was ten. Harry's tongue begins to sting. "As I remember. "I don't give a fuck where anybody sleeps.

SAV ME. and she was alone with Nelson. silly. What have they done to you. I don't like what these queers have done to Nelson. In this direction. that it's not enough to lie here and accept the apparition of them like another channel of television. Even Florida bakes the spirit out of him. with their secret pools out back behind the garages with their automatic doors.

stuffed with her moss. Don't let things get to you. he discovered himself nearer a shining presence than he thought." he says. it's on opposite sides of Brewer. Fiftysix last February. the more constricted Harry's chest feels. Schmidt hits a home run. She sat out on the balcony for a while after Harry and Pru and the children went.

a touch gangsterish. you're no giant." he tells her. it gets thick?skinned and dull rubbing against cloth all the time. You did Ronnie. Creamy Italian. unrufed. too. But medicine can only do so much.

now that his animal fragility has reawakened her awareness of his body. One of the reasons Nelson had for hiring a new rep was he wanted to devote more of his own attention to the used cars." "Then it can't be such a very little deal. And. Mim as his own blood sister had a certain unforced claim over him no woman since has been able to establish. Bush get subpoenas. not liking being teased about this. overlooking a golf course from a narrow balcony screened by the top branches of Norfolk pines. sodium?soaked nuts.

Harry looks in vain into this fearful brown?eyed face for a trace of his blue?eyed own. Nelson. to attract the healthminded yuppies who work in the glassskinned office building that has risen across from Kroll's. Pru ? she is like him even in having two names. They bask. when she was still enthusiastic about shells. when shows like Cosby or Perfect Strangers or Golden Girls begin to tickle him too much. near enough for it to cast a golden shadow ahead of his steps across the yard; then it was his future. called now The Light Fantastic.

Janice is rich." she says." she explains to Harry. At least they went to Florida together." Judy says. She touches her upper lip with her tongue. that flared up a minute ago." "Never. and comes out a minute later wearing his bathrobe.

so if there's a crash everybody can feast upon it with their own eyes. really. "I thought Lyle was sick. the red of the stoplights almost invisible. In their condo building in fact he and Janice are pets of a sort. Their floor is the fourth. which in reality just got rid of its old dictator with the German name. busy and lighted only at one end where a grate or two is up. "I don't think so.

" The girl's lower lip trembles and she gets out. Too big. They don't close right." Harry wonders about the next life. "And these are my two handsome grandchildren. "What can I offer you?" Thelma asks. the laborers of old hand?dug a great trench to bring the railroad tracks into the city." she says. Also.

Or perhaps a monster is what he has been all along. did herself in. The first time they ever slept together. The sensation chills him. gawky and selfhating as the rest of her is. it was like a truck ran over him and then backed up. That's sexy. he couldn't stand to go back into a salaried job and all that withholding tax and the aggravation of being expected somewhere like at the lot every day. Harry sees.

with puffy pink lids. if they wanted to be superstitious. as he sits on the bed. and has to keep testing her. "Something about apples being the color of blood. Dull. "I don't do needles and I don't fuck coke whores. Fuck him. "What if I do do a little toot on the weekends? It's no worse than all that sipping you do.