Stolen Pleasures (2011)
Stolen Pleasures
“Delia and her family had no piano and therefore no living room. Living, their kind, went on everywhere in their house, smaller than the other houses and closer to the alley. It was the piano that made a room into a living room, because the piano, she figured, promised the children of the family happy lives to come if only they’d learn to play it.
The piano, a huge, flat, forbidding face, until her best friend, Ellsworth, across the alley, sat down before it, lifted the long upper lip, baring th...e long rows of black and yellow teeth clamped together in an unsightly grin, and with nervous fingers picked out cajoling sounds that meant Please, piano, piano, open up a happy future for me, for me, piano, please, for me, for me.
Inside, where you couldn’t see what was going on, a lot of little hammers were beating on strings. A hidden cruelty in there, it seemed to Delia, slumped down on the floor in a corner, chewing on the untied strings at the neck of her soiled dress. Without a piano, were her parents doubtful of her and her sister’s future?MoreLess
The piano, a huge, flat, forbidding face, until her best friend, Ellsworth, across the alley, sat down before it, lifted the long upper lip, baring th...e long rows of black and yellow teeth clamped together in an unsightly grin, and with nervous fingers picked out cajoling sounds that meant Please, piano, piano, open up a happy future for me, for me, piano, please, for me, for me.
Inside, where you couldn’t see what was going on, a lot of little hammers were beating on strings. A hidden cruelty in there, it seemed to Delia, slumped down on the floor in a corner, chewing on the untied strings at the neck of her soiled dress. Without a piano, were her parents doubtful of her and her sister’s future?MoreLess
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