In Case We're Separated
“Maybe they paid attention to her because of her size: their argument paused when she spoke, but then she was interrupted by a man’s testy voice, coming from outside the window. “I’m gonna work my way out of the hole,” the man said mysteriously, “not in.”
Workers were restoring broken stucco. Now that the landlord was improving the building, he wanted more rent than Joan’s organization could pay. The workers had erected scaffolding all over the old gray structure (a grand house originally, later... a funeral home) and they climbed from one wooden platform to another, like children in a playground designed to encourage the imagination. They appeared at windows, or were abruptly audible. Joan did not like exceptions to the usual rules about windows and doors, about up and down. Outside the window hung the thick torso of a woman in tight denim shorts, girded by a leather belt full of tools. A hand held a cigarette. Joan could see a belly button, an innie. A hammer she couldn’t see tapped on the wall.MoreLess
Workers were restoring broken stucco. Now that the landlord was improving the building, he wanted more rent than Joan’s organization could pay. The workers had erected scaffolding all over the old gray structure (a grand house originally, later... a funeral home) and they climbed from one wooden platform to another, like children in a playground designed to encourage the imagination. They appeared at windows, or were abruptly audible. Joan did not like exceptions to the usual rules about windows and doors, about up and down. Outside the window hung the thick torso of a woman in tight denim shorts, girded by a leather belt full of tools. A hand held a cigarette. Joan could see a belly button, an innie. A hammer she couldn’t see tapped on the wall.MoreLess
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