Heroes (2011)
“I try to avoid eye contact with people I know, like Mr. Molnier, the butcher, who stands in the doorway of his meat market in his bloodstained apron, and Mrs. St. Pierre, who scowls her disapproval at him as she passes.
I have places to visit now that I have returned and one of them is Sixth Street and the gray three-decker where Nicole Renard lived with her mother and father on the second floor at number 212.
I know she doesn’t live there anymore and I have nothing to gain by going there but i...t’s inevitable that I look at her house again.
I stand across the street for a long time, staring up at the blank windows with their white lace curtains.
After a while, a child’s small face appears at a window on the second floor, like the ghost of the little girl Nicole once was. I smile up at the child and she draws away from the window, disappearing the way Nicole disappeared from Frenchtown. Or was the child a momentary hallucination?
Crossing the street, I climb the steps to the first-floor piazza and look at the nameplates beside the black mailboxes.MoreLess
I have places to visit now that I have returned and one of them is Sixth Street and the gray three-decker where Nicole Renard lived with her mother and father on the second floor at number 212.
I know she doesn’t live there anymore and I have nothing to gain by going there but i...t’s inevitable that I look at her house again.
I stand across the street for a long time, staring up at the blank windows with their white lace curtains.
After a while, a child’s small face appears at a window on the second floor, like the ghost of the little girl Nicole once was. I smile up at the child and she draws away from the window, disappearing the way Nicole disappeared from Frenchtown. Or was the child a momentary hallucination?
Crossing the street, I climb the steps to the first-floor piazza and look at the nameplates beside the black mailboxes.MoreLess
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