Death Will Have Your Eyes (2014)
“Jeanne had shopping to do, she said, and would be leaving that afternoon for Gulfport and the Holiday Inn there. I sat for a while by the pool. It was nine o’clock, cloudy, and a little like one of those science fiction movies where a few survivors are clinging to the wreckage, living out their days in the dry husk of civilization.
Around front, a chartered Greyhound pulled in. I watched through gaps in the weathered wood fence as twenty or so tourists debarked. All Asian, but a curious mix...: Koreans, Thais, a couple of Cambodians, scattered Vietnamese, mainland Chinese in both western and traditional dress. They waited silently in file as the driver went into the motel office and came back out. He stepped along the line, passing keys out.I didn’t think Jeanne’s fantasy (if, finally, it were fantasy) much stranger than others I’ve known. We all create such fictions out of the stuff of our lives, small myths, private lies, that help us go on, help us remain human, reassure us that we understand our own tiny fragment of the world.MoreLess
Around front, a chartered Greyhound pulled in. I watched through gaps in the weathered wood fence as twenty or so tourists debarked. All Asian, but a curious mix...: Koreans, Thais, a couple of Cambodians, scattered Vietnamese, mainland Chinese in both western and traditional dress. They waited silently in file as the driver went into the motel office and came back out. He stepped along the line, passing keys out.I didn’t think Jeanne’s fantasy (if, finally, it were fantasy) much stranger than others I’ve known. We all create such fictions out of the stuff of our lives, small myths, private lies, that help us go on, help us remain human, reassure us that we understand our own tiny fragment of the world.MoreLess
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