The Half Life of Stars (2006)
“I’m overseeing the renovation.’ ‘You’re painting it?’ ‘Among other things, yes.’ ‘Is it as rundown as our house back at home?’ ‘More so, it’s practically a shell.’ I thought about this for a moment. A building like a shell, brittle and empty, just a skeleton frame to hold it up.
‘Can I go there one day, can I see it?’ ‘No.’ ‘But I’d like to see what it looks like.’ ‘It’s dangerous. Things could fall on you, you might get hurt.’ ‘I’d wear a hat.’ ‘We don’t have any hard hats that would fit you.’... ‘What about the one you give to Daniel? His head’s not much bigger than mine is. He has a pin head, everybody says so.’ ‘I don’t have a pin head…shut up, Fatso.’ ‘You do. And you have weird-shaped ears as well.’ ‘It’s not going to happen, Claire, that’s final. Stop asking, you’d only get in the way.’ I don’t think he realised how harsh he sounded. I don’t think he realised what he’d said. I felt myself shrinking into my chair, like I suddenly needed to take a pee.MoreLess
‘Can I go there one day, can I see it?’ ‘No.’ ‘But I’d like to see what it looks like.’ ‘It’s dangerous. Things could fall on you, you might get hurt.’ ‘I’d wear a hat.’ ‘We don’t have any hard hats that would fit you.’... ‘What about the one you give to Daniel? His head’s not much bigger than mine is. He has a pin head, everybody says so.’ ‘I don’t have a pin head…shut up, Fatso.’ ‘You do. And you have weird-shaped ears as well.’ ‘It’s not going to happen, Claire, that’s final. Stop asking, you’d only get in the way.’ I don’t think he realised how harsh he sounded. I don’t think he realised what he’d said. I felt myself shrinking into my chair, like I suddenly needed to take a pee.MoreLess
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