I Am the Cheese
“He became a spy, a secret agent in his own home, listening at doorways, eavesdropping on telephone conversations, watchful and wary and suspicious.
“What’s the matter—don’t you feel well?” his mother asked. She was always solicitous about him, concerned and worried, emerging from her sad cocoon to fuss over him.
“I’m all right, Mom,” he answered.
But he would study his mother, even though she was so sweet and innocent that he felt guilty for his doubts. He wondered what secrets she harbored, wh...at dark knowledge she kept hidden within her. Was this what made her sad, what kept her in her room during the day, closeted in the house all the time, seldom venturing into the outside world? And his father—what about his father? In his proper clothes, his suit and vest, his morning newspaper. What secrets lurked in him? Or am I dramatizing? Adam wondered. He wanted to be a writer, to capture drama on paper. Was he really manufacturing mysteries to satisfy his literary longings, finding mysteries where they did not in fact exist?MoreLess
“What’s the matter—don’t you feel well?” his mother asked. She was always solicitous about him, concerned and worried, emerging from her sad cocoon to fuss over him.
“I’m all right, Mom,” he answered.
But he would study his mother, even though she was so sweet and innocent that he felt guilty for his doubts. He wondered what secrets she harbored, wh...at dark knowledge she kept hidden within her. Was this what made her sad, what kept her in her room during the day, closeted in the house all the time, seldom venturing into the outside world? And his father—what about his father? In his proper clothes, his suit and vest, his morning newspaper. What secrets lurked in him? Or am I dramatizing? Adam wondered. He wanted to be a writer, to capture drama on paper. Was he really manufacturing mysteries to satisfy his literary longings, finding mysteries where they did not in fact exist?MoreLess
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