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adventurous carriage maniacal

Adventurous carriage maniacal

Hei?ur looked around my room respectfully and said it was awfully nice, making me feel proud that the richest girl in the school should feel that way. She was in awe of the little church on my desk, which Dad had crafted as a Christmas ornament for me. It resembled Laugarnes Church and was lit up electrically. In the sparkling snow surrounding it were Yule Lads out for a stroll under the guidance of their mother, the ogress Gr?la. One had a candle made of a match, with wax melted over it, its wick made of superfine crocheted twine. Hei?ur had never seen anything so cute as that miniature candle. Yet what she liked best were the embossed shelves that Dad had made for me, full of books, even foreign picture books. A brief note on how that episode ended, if I may. It ended as my episodes all end. As they all must end if I am to keep body and soul together. It ended in the circle. The window of Jolie’s room looked down the cliff and over the Pacific. It was the kind of place that only wealth or beauty could afford. My family and I had lived in a small cottage. There was no privacy, much less solace, and the only view was of the street and smoggy city sky. What little green we had was paintedon the concrete of our front yard. But I was never bothered by any of that. I adored my brothers, took care of my mother, and my father was a dream come true. He read me fairy tales and showed me how to count money when he was still comfortable with me sitting on his lap. Who would we find to haunt? “Don’t be fooled; that little faggot could carry the whole world on his shoulders if he had to.” “Off the backs of slaves.” “That’s not what it says.” I could tell by her hesitation that something rotten lay in my future. What do you mean? Hunker down on the bridge? says Hei?ur, foul-tempered. Nope, I admitted, I didn’t. Darla squinted while Chas looked down at his feet and hands. There was no sense in me blaming them. There was no comfort to be found in recriminations or rage. He felt Analie tense. She too now saw the two rifles aimed at them from the shadows. The devious pitch-black grains penetrate the car and settle on the dashboard, where they multiply. Nothing in the world apart from these particular particles could reach us through the battened-down seam of shut windows and locked doors. Why didn’t you terminate me? “The Commodore is a confidant of the governor, even a member of Parliament. His papers are always crowded with seals and stamps.” “There sits my mother”: Lines from the nursery rhyme“Tungli?, tungli? taktu mig” (“Moon, moon, take me”), by the Icelandic poet Th?od?ra Thorodssen (1863–1954). She said he was alive, incredibly sad, and wanted to speak to me. On the way home, Karinger straddled the yellow dashes of the empty highway. I walked in the dirt on the side of the road, using my club as a walking stick. Lizards raced before my feet, and once in a while I crushed a Pepsi can with my shoe or else knocked a plastic water bottle into the tumbleweeds with my 2-iron. The plastic bags, filled with old golf balls, hung from our wrists. “Then why did you want me here at six?”.