The Dogs of Littlefield
“It began in the grocery store with buckets of unopened daffodils, stems bound together with rubber bands like bunches of asparagus. Carried home and placed in a vase of water, the daffodils opened within two days, filling one’s house with a delicate, waxy scent.
Next snowdrops, here, there, so early, so tenuous, a clutch of sunny delirium.
Then came weeks of cold rain that washed away even the peak of snow in the library parking lot, followed by gray days that made students at Warren College ya...wn through afternoon classes and sleep through morning ones—sleeping, too, through Dr. Clarice Watkins’s series of noontime seminars on theories of modern social structure and the influence of global destabilization—while at night they kept vampire hours, histrionic lyrics pulsing through earbuds connected to their iPods, eating cold pizza that tasted of cardboard and stalking each other on Facebook. Something in them was stirring. They wandered further into the Web, news passing before them on search engine pages: war criminals acquitted, movie stars arrested, rivers swelling, dams breaking, the polar ice cap melting faster and faster.MoreLess
Next snowdrops, here, there, so early, so tenuous, a clutch of sunny delirium.
Then came weeks of cold rain that washed away even the peak of snow in the library parking lot, followed by gray days that made students at Warren College ya...wn through afternoon classes and sleep through morning ones—sleeping, too, through Dr. Clarice Watkins’s series of noontime seminars on theories of modern social structure and the influence of global destabilization—while at night they kept vampire hours, histrionic lyrics pulsing through earbuds connected to their iPods, eating cold pizza that tasted of cardboard and stalking each other on Facebook. Something in them was stirring. They wandered further into the Web, news passing before them on search engine pages: war criminals acquitted, movie stars arrested, rivers swelling, dams breaking, the polar ice cap melting faster and faster.MoreLess
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