Youre not going anywhere, Paul. Five persons, four of them members of the same family, died in the early hours of Wednesday morning, victims of a smoky three-alarm fire in a Bakersfield apartment house on Watch Hill Avenue.
I hate it when you call it that. He was sure he could hoist himself into the chair, knew it was probably a bad idea to let Annie know he could, but he needed his other fix, goddammit, and he could not write lying here in bed. His attention had been focused only on finding a way to get the bitch out of her grave without cheating before Annie decided to inspire him by giving him an enema with a handful of Ginsu knives. ""Just the shift of the pages against each other will accomplish plenty of blurring over a period of weeks or ever days,he said, "and when a manuscript is in work, it get shifted around a lot.
His attention had been focused only on finding a way to get the bitch out of her grave without cheating before Annie decided to inspire him by giving him an enema with a handful of Ginsu knives. As a matter of fact, he did not.
And this had caused another memory to resurface: finishing William Goldings Lord of the Flies at the age of twelve on a hot summer day, going to the refrigerator for a cold glass of lemonade. "Whatever he thought of it, Mr Rancho Grande was not going to give Annie the satisfaction of seeing it - that neutral _expression_ dropped over his face again like the visor on a suit of armor.