Man Walks Into a Room (2002)
“Donald was wearing a pilled flannel bathrobe and had his arms crossed tightly over his gut as if he was about to flash. “How come you don’t want a picture? You saying I’m not good-looking?”
“You want me to take a picture?”
“I’m saying.”
Samson lifted his camera and focused. “Tell me when,” Donald said, planting his feet like a batter taking his stance.
“Okay: one, two—”
Donald pulled open the bathrobe and grinned. He was wearing a pair of white boxer shorts printed all over with red lipstick ma...rks. There were elastic sock marks around his shins, the legs thin and ropy beneath the bulky girth around his middle, as if the body parts belonged to different lives.
“Heh.” If Donald laughed too hard it triggered a coughing fit in his lungs. It was a risk each time and mostly he just made a shallow, wheezy grunt in the back of his throat. “That’s gonna be a prize. Show me when you get it back.”
Samson breathed on the lens and wiped it with a special cloth, removing stray dust particles.MoreLess
“You want me to take a picture?”
“I’m saying.”
Samson lifted his camera and focused. “Tell me when,” Donald said, planting his feet like a batter taking his stance.
“Okay: one, two—”
Donald pulled open the bathrobe and grinned. He was wearing a pair of white boxer shorts printed all over with red lipstick ma...rks. There were elastic sock marks around his shins, the legs thin and ropy beneath the bulky girth around his middle, as if the body parts belonged to different lives.
“Heh.” If Donald laughed too hard it triggered a coughing fit in his lungs. It was a risk each time and mostly he just made a shallow, wheezy grunt in the back of his throat. “That’s gonna be a prize. Show me when you get it back.”
Samson breathed on the lens and wiped it with a special cloth, removing stray dust particles.MoreLess
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