Sleeping Beauty (2010)
“The plastic boom across the harbor mouth had broken during the night. The floating oil had surged in with the morning tide and covered the surface of the enclosed water, coating the hulls of the boats lying at anchor and splashing the rocks and walls that lined the inner harbor. The black scene was barely relieved by a few white gulls with dirty feet.
It was too early, and the front door of Blanche’s place was locked. There were violent noises somewhere in the back which sounded to my recently ...sensitized ears like somebody beating somebody else to death.
It turned out to be a man in the kitchen pounding abalone with a wooden mallet. I asked him through the screen door if Blanche was there.
“Blanche never comes in this time in the a.m. She’s generally here by ten.”
“Where does she live?”
He lifted his shoulders. “Don’t ask me. She likes to keep it a secret. She doesn’t give out her telephone number, either. Is it important?”
I didn’t know. It had looked from where I sat the night before as if the younger man accompanying the man in the tweed suit had asked Blanche a question, and she had pointed south along the beach.MoreLess
It was too early, and the front door of Blanche’s place was locked. There were violent noises somewhere in the back which sounded to my recently ...sensitized ears like somebody beating somebody else to death.
It turned out to be a man in the kitchen pounding abalone with a wooden mallet. I asked him through the screen door if Blanche was there.
“Blanche never comes in this time in the a.m. She’s generally here by ten.”
“Where does she live?”
He lifted his shoulders. “Don’t ask me. She likes to keep it a secret. She doesn’t give out her telephone number, either. Is it important?”
I didn’t know. It had looked from where I sat the night before as if the younger man accompanying the man in the tweed suit had asked Blanche a question, and she had pointed south along the beach.MoreLess
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