Take the A-Train (2013)
“I could only get through to strangers who couldn’t understand me, and the only people I could understand whispered down the line about my death. I woke up with a start, all caught up in my own damp bedsheets. The first thing I saw, on the bedside table next to the lamp, was the piece of paper with the address in Kennington. I knew that I should have gone there when Lawrence Taylor had phoned the previous night.
I looked at the clock. Seven oh five it read, and something was out of kilter. Even ...with the curtains drawn the room seemed strangely light. I got up and drew them back. The weather man on the radio had been right. The snow was thick outside and the street was bright from the reflections of the street lamps even though the sky was still dark. My car was just a white hump on more white. The road and pavements were hardly touched by tracks that early on a Sunday morning and I knew I’d never make even the short run up to Kennington in the Jag.
I called Teddy. The telephone rang and rang and I was just about to give up when he answered.MoreLess
I looked at the clock. Seven oh five it read, and something was out of kilter. Even ...with the curtains drawn the room seemed strangely light. I got up and drew them back. The weather man on the radio had been right. The snow was thick outside and the street was bright from the reflections of the street lamps even though the sky was still dark. My car was just a white hump on more white. The road and pavements were hardly touched by tracks that early on a Sunday morning and I knew I’d never make even the short run up to Kennington in the Jag.
I called Teddy. The telephone rang and rang and I was just about to give up when he answered.MoreLess
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