Diablerie (2010)
Diablerie
“They were wearing business suits and having a serious conversation. I accompanied them out of the hotel and departed their company when they asked the doorman to hail them a taxi.
On the street I wondered about Barbara Knowland's story. Why would she lie about something like that? It made sense, if events occurred the way she related them, that she'd be petrified to see me at her reading. The police had already put her on the hot seat for murder; all I had to do was blame the killing on her. Ma...ybe she thought that I'd come to blackmail her.
"Oh my God! Oh my God! Oh my God!" a woman shouted from one of the apartments in my daughter's new building.
I remember thinking that she'd have to hear her neighbors rutting all the time now that she was living in a building like this. It was the same way when I was a kid in Colorado. But back then I was the one doing the rutting; either that or I was passed out from liquor.
I knocked on her door and the screaming stopped. Even then I only marveled at the thinness of the walls: The lovers could hear me knocking right through my daughter's walls.MoreLess
On the street I wondered about Barbara Knowland's story. Why would she lie about something like that? It made sense, if events occurred the way she related them, that she'd be petrified to see me at her reading. The police had already put her on the hot seat for murder; all I had to do was blame the killing on her. Ma...ybe she thought that I'd come to blackmail her.
"Oh my God! Oh my God! Oh my God!" a woman shouted from one of the apartments in my daughter's new building.
I remember thinking that she'd have to hear her neighbors rutting all the time now that she was living in a building like this. It was the same way when I was a kid in Colorado. But back then I was the one doing the rutting; either that or I was passed out from liquor.
I knocked on her door and the screaming stopped. Even then I only marveled at the thinness of the walls: The lovers could hear me knocking right through my daughter's walls.MoreLess
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