The Wages of Desire (2016)
“FEELING RESTLESS.
She lay awake for ten minutes or so, listening to the empty house creak. The night sounds that emanated from the house’s corners and hidden places still upset her, though she had tried her best to harden herself to them. Her mother had tried to pacify her by saying that the sounds merely came from the house “breathing,” which she found ridiculous, the kind of thing an adult would say to a very young child. She found it ironic that her mother had concluded that she was old enou...gh to stay in the house alone through the night yet otherwise treated her as if she still were a little girl.
She rose from bed propelled in part by an idea she knew to be odd. Yet it also fit with her desire to face the macabre and learn from it; she wanted to see the place where the tramp had died. She had heard about the discovery of his body, of course. Although the police had yet to announce an official cause of his death, the talk in the village was that the old man had died of some natural cause, a bad heart or consumption, or merely the ravages of age.MoreLess
She lay awake for ten minutes or so, listening to the empty house creak. The night sounds that emanated from the house’s corners and hidden places still upset her, though she had tried her best to harden herself to them. Her mother had tried to pacify her by saying that the sounds merely came from the house “breathing,” which she found ridiculous, the kind of thing an adult would say to a very young child. She found it ironic that her mother had concluded that she was old enou...gh to stay in the house alone through the night yet otherwise treated her as if she still were a little girl.
She rose from bed propelled in part by an idea she knew to be odd. Yet it also fit with her desire to face the macabre and learn from it; she wanted to see the place where the tramp had died. She had heard about the discovery of his body, of course. Although the police had yet to announce an official cause of his death, the talk in the village was that the old man had died of some natural cause, a bad heart or consumption, or merely the ravages of age.MoreLess
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