The Second Time Around
“But on the way home from Greenwood Lake yesterday, Ned had stopped at a liquor store and bought bottles of bourbon, scotch, and rye. He hadn’t taken his medicine since Annie died, so maybe she wouldn’t be mad at him for drinking now. “I need to sleep, Annie,” he explained when he opened the first bottle. “It will help me to sleep.”
It did help. He had fallen asleep sitting in the chair, but then something happened. Ned couldn’t tell whether he was dreaming or remembering about the night of the ...fire. He was standing in that clump of trees with the can of gas when a shadow came from the side of the house and rushed down the driveway.
It was so windy, and the branches of the trees kept moving and swaying. He had thought at first that was what caused the shadow. . . . But now the shadow had become the figure of a man, and in his dream he sometimes thought he could even see a face.
Was it like his dreams about Annie, the ones that were so real he could even smell the peach body lotion she wore?MoreLess
It did help. He had fallen asleep sitting in the chair, but then something happened. Ned couldn’t tell whether he was dreaming or remembering about the night of the ...fire. He was standing in that clump of trees with the can of gas when a shadow came from the side of the house and rushed down the driveway.
It was so windy, and the branches of the trees kept moving and swaying. He had thought at first that was what caused the shadow. . . . But now the shadow had become the figure of a man, and in his dream he sometimes thought he could even see a face.
Was it like his dreams about Annie, the ones that were so real he could even smell the peach body lotion she wore?MoreLess
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