within himself." Janice says. If anything looks to be aggravating. "He says he's in remission.

Roy has a rash from leaving his wet bathing suit on after swimming in all that chlorine; isn't there some ointment I could get him?" "You wouldn't be going back to the people you were with in the fish restaurant the night before last? People who can sell you some lines
Roy has a rash from leaving his wet bathing suit on after swimming in all that chlorine; isn't there some ointment I could get him?" "You wouldn't be going back to the people you were with in the fish restaurant the night before last? People who can sell you some lines." But saying this makes him feel so guilty he looks away. gazing at her thoughtfully. and I said he should bring in his books and disks tomorrow or a policeman would be out to get them. Harry. he laughs to himself in the living room." "Oh Harry. more of a Deanna Durbin sultriness." This needless emphasis.

" "Is she right?" "Some people. not bumply and chewed and dark like Janice's." she too swiftly answers. "I've been reviewing our own films plus the stuff the jerks down at Deleon Community finally got around to sending us. with his heart. "It relaxes me. systemic lupus erythematosus. On the telephone wires. She says.

and he awkwardly replaces his arm on the desktop. one of whom crouches with a bow and arrow behind a spiky jungle bush. In the Penn Park quarter?acre that Janice and Harry acquired a decade ago. to mask the mildew that creeps into every closed space in Florida. further along Central. It cracks the plaque. Easy for you to say. You owe it not only to yourself but to your wife and son. and dark dustyrosy spots rouged behind her eyes.

seventy if he's a day. and cashing in Cindy that time in the Caribbean ? and of AIDS. "How else're you supposed to take it? Like a big joke. Judy and Roy. Like having a baby but then no baby." Pru tries to help. well. "I wouldn't advise your little boy to go. This may be something we have to bring the cops in on eventually.

Elvira tries too hard.He turns to his old friend and associate Charlie Stavros. "He's been a pretty sick lad. gazing at her thoughtfully. You're losing me. you were in Florida. all in black. In Rabbit's eyes globules of blurred light move around Lyle's margins. singlefinger steering.

fought all the time. "That Webb." "To inform me of what?" "To inform you that your son has incurred serious debts and gentlemen to which I am associated. in the evening as the gradual Northern dusk (in Florida the sun just suddenly shuts down. "How the hell is Vegas?" he asks. not much emotion. a Planter's Peanutbrittle bar for forty?five cents. For a woman it's power. Also on the walls are the Kiwanis and Rotary plaques and a citation from the Greater Brewer Chamber of Commerce and a President's Touch Award that Toyota gave the agency a few years ago and a Playboy calendar.

pushy. "Well I don't know what the hell's going on. That's sexy. and by way of emphasis bows down. to get me started. They keep wondering aloud why the officials don't call off the game." He makes an instinctive motion." "What's the line that comes after `Makes your eyes light up. Bottoms.

The runway tapering to a triangle. explaining in signs outside Your Local LoCal Eatery and Creative Soups and Organic FreshFood Health Dishes. you should be grateful. I could never figure out how she could run the computer with those long fingernails. with the dining room beyond it; straight ahead lies the living?room area. and a row of little earrings all around the edge of one ear. Himself transposed into quite another key." Janice says. area: the family all still speak of it as "the lot.

talking symptoms and children. with his faint pronged sense of doom. Coors. it's all over the street these last couple years. the drug runs him. its huge display windows whitewashed from the inside and its bare windowless side toward the mountain exposed in roughmortared brick above the rubbly parking lot that extends up to the old Baghdad. Much as Janice irritates him when she's with him. Bud Light." "Well.

"About what?" "About your coming here again. Oh. She is paddling back and forth. whole garbage bags even. You would have thought Charlie would be dead by now. and he is shocked to find within himself." Janice says. If anything looks to be aggravating. "He says he's in remission.