9:41 (2016)
“Now a sound. The powdery snow crunched beneath the feet of a lone figure hastening past the silent, snow-capped steps of the dark brownstones. The man’s shadow skimmed out over the white surface of the sidewalk, getting smaller as he approached the street lamp, then expanding again as he strode past it into the darkness of the valley between the lamps. It was cold, that cold, that clear, crisp cold that exhilarates the body, that made one want to fill one’s lungs with all of this clean air.
Car...l breathed in fully of the fresh air about him and held his breath with his lungs filled to an overwhelmed capacity of cleanness. He exhaled, and a wisp of steam escaped from his mouth. Oddly enough, even in this wonderful environment of freshness, Carl still faintly detected Ruth’s perfume. He had been so close to her, to that fragrance that seemed always to hover about her; he could smell it in her hair, on her skin, on her bedclothes, … perhaps it was his imagination conjuring the sensation of her fragrance.MoreLess
Car...l breathed in fully of the fresh air about him and held his breath with his lungs filled to an overwhelmed capacity of cleanness. He exhaled, and a wisp of steam escaped from his mouth. Oddly enough, even in this wonderful environment of freshness, Carl still faintly detected Ruth’s perfume. He had been so close to her, to that fragrance that seemed always to hover about her; he could smell it in her hair, on her skin, on her bedclothes, … perhaps it was his imagination conjuring the sensation of her fragrance.MoreLess
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