The Ten-Year Nap
“the girl sang in a strange, minor key. Deep inside the house, with its various levels and echoing surfaces that gave off the forlorn quality that was often a side effect of newness, she examined the constellations lining her ceiling and sang to herself a song that was both melancholy and beautiful. Where she had learned it, her mother had no idea. Her daughter was a mystery to her and always had been.
The mother, Jill Hamlin, walking up the wide carpeted stairs toward her own bedroom, heard the... singing and stopped in the hallway to listen. No one was really used to the house yet, and the little girl in particular seemed agitated at night—not that she’d been a solid sleeper back in the city, either. Jill paused at the top, then walked into her daughter’s bedroom and sat on the side of the bed, under the shaped spray of luminescent stars that Donald had glued there. “I heard you singing,” she said. “What’s going on in here, honey? You shouldn’t still be up.”
“I can’t sleep, Mom.”MoreLess
The mother, Jill Hamlin, walking up the wide carpeted stairs toward her own bedroom, heard the... singing and stopped in the hallway to listen. No one was really used to the house yet, and the little girl in particular seemed agitated at night—not that she’d been a solid sleeper back in the city, either. Jill paused at the top, then walked into her daughter’s bedroom and sat on the side of the bed, under the shaped spray of luminescent stars that Donald had glued there. “I heard you singing,” she said. “What’s going on in here, honey? You shouldn’t still be up.”
“I can’t sleep, Mom.”MoreLess
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