…nobody else volunteered to be the first-aid instructor’s victim after that. But victims they became, nonetheless.… more
…nobody else volunteered to be the first-aid instructor’s victim after that. But victims they became, nonetheless.… more
When Mary finds him, she’s going to punish him. He will inadvertently disarm her probably, she knows, imagining a headfirst hug at the bottom of the slide, a tangled pile, wheezing and wild with laughter. The smiling cherub laughs, anger wilts.… more
“We think about our wives, our children, think about our fathers: they would have known how to make a loser laugh, how to get a winner to pay.… more