The Best of Fiona Kidman's Short Stories (2013)
“This is not to say that I am not surrounded by a great deal of peace of other people’s making. People, meaning family and friends, have great respect for my need for peace and quiet these days. ‘Ellen is working,’ they say to each other, ‘she must be left in peace.’ I am grateful and sometimes overwhelmed by this consideration. So overwhelmed that I have to go away.
I go to a variety of places, but most particularly to a motel a long way from where I live. I think it is best if I do not tel...l you where the motel is, for the motel-keeper’s wife figures slightly in this story, and I do not think she would appreciate being identified. Her role is not significant, in that it could be filled by another person, and I have thought of cutting her out altogether, but I find that difficult, simply because she was there. Instead, I will tell you that the motel is perched on the edge of sand dunes on one of those bays that stretch limitlessly around the eastern coast of the north of New Zealand, the sand so blazingly white by day, that it makes the eyes reel in their sockets when you look at it, and in the moonlight makes you think of Peter O’Toole playing Lawrence of Arabia.MoreLess
I go to a variety of places, but most particularly to a motel a long way from where I live. I think it is best if I do not tel...l you where the motel is, for the motel-keeper’s wife figures slightly in this story, and I do not think she would appreciate being identified. Her role is not significant, in that it could be filled by another person, and I have thought of cutting her out altogether, but I find that difficult, simply because she was there. Instead, I will tell you that the motel is perched on the edge of sand dunes on one of those bays that stretch limitlessly around the eastern coast of the north of New Zealand, the sand so blazingly white by day, that it makes the eyes reel in their sockets when you look at it, and in the moonlight makes you think of Peter O’Toole playing Lawrence of Arabia.MoreLess
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