Monday's Child (2014)
“The house had been quiet for at least an hour, and Jill was sleeping soundly, but whether it was being in a strange bed or the things that she’d seen today, Katy wasn’t able to get to sleep.
She’d tried lying on her stomach, her back, on her right side with her legs curled tight, on her left side with her legs straight out.
She’d tried thinking the same word over and over, hoping to induce a kind of trance. She counted backwards from one hundred. She’d tried closing her eyes and crossin...g them, which sometimes made her dizzy but often had the effect of making her drowsy as well.
Even though she didn’t quite get what doing one had to do with attaining the other, she counted sheep.
Nothing worked.
She stared at the ceiling, hands behind her head, and wondered how Jill did the things she did.
Sleight of hand, she supposed. Once when her mother had worked a full week as a movie extra and they were flush, they’d gone with a bunch of her mom’s friends to celebrate their good fortune at the Magic Castle.MoreLess
She’d tried lying on her stomach, her back, on her right side with her legs curled tight, on her left side with her legs straight out.
She’d tried thinking the same word over and over, hoping to induce a kind of trance. She counted backwards from one hundred. She’d tried closing her eyes and crossin...g them, which sometimes made her dizzy but often had the effect of making her drowsy as well.
Even though she didn’t quite get what doing one had to do with attaining the other, she counted sheep.
Nothing worked.
She stared at the ceiling, hands behind her head, and wondered how Jill did the things she did.
Sleight of hand, she supposed. Once when her mother had worked a full week as a movie extra and they were flush, they’d gone with a bunch of her mom’s friends to celebrate their good fortune at the Magic Castle.MoreLess
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