The Thing Around Your Neck (2009)
The Thing Around Your Neck
“The number 2B, unevenly fashioned from yellowish metal, was plastered on it.
“We’re here,” he said. He had used the word “house” when he told me about our home. I had imagined a smooth driveway snaking between cucumber-colored lawns, a door leading into a hallway, walls with sedate paintings. A house like those of the white newlyweds in the American films that NTA showed on Saturday nights.
He turned on the light in the living room, where a beige couch sat alone in the middle, slanted, as thoug...h dropped there by accident. The room was hot; old, musty smells hung heavy in the air.
“I’ll show you around,” he said.
The smaller bedroom had a bare mattress lodged in one corner. The bigger bedroom had a bed and dresser, and a phone on the carpeted floor. Still, both rooms lacked a sense of space, as though the walls had become uncomfortable with each other, with so little between them.
“Now that you’re here, we’ll get more furniture. I didn’t need that much when I was alone,”MoreLess
“We’re here,” he said. He had used the word “house” when he told me about our home. I had imagined a smooth driveway snaking between cucumber-colored lawns, a door leading into a hallway, walls with sedate paintings. A house like those of the white newlyweds in the American films that NTA showed on Saturday nights.
He turned on the light in the living room, where a beige couch sat alone in the middle, slanted, as thoug...h dropped there by accident. The room was hot; old, musty smells hung heavy in the air.
“I’ll show you around,” he said.
The smaller bedroom had a bare mattress lodged in one corner. The bigger bedroom had a bed and dresser, and a phone on the carpeted floor. Still, both rooms lacked a sense of space, as though the walls had become uncomfortable with each other, with so little between them.
“Now that you’re here, we’ll get more furniture. I didn’t need that much when I was alone,”MoreLess
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