What Dies in Summer
“For a few seconds I felt paralyzed, physically and mentally, smothering under the weight of my inability to protect Gram and L.A., or even myself, in case of attack.
Looking around me in the gray morning light, I couldn’t see anything wrong or out of place, so I pulled on my Levi’s and went to check the house. Gram was in the kitchen heating water for tea and humming along with the radio, which was quietly playing some old Bob Wills number. L.A. was asleep under her mound of pillows, snorin...g softly. One of the pillows lifted an inch or so and Jazzy peered sleepily out at me from underneath it.
There was nothing suspicious in any of the other rooms, and now that I was all the way awake I was beginning to forget why I needed to protect Gram and L.A. The house itself felt all right. I decided to see if a shower would get the last of the dreams off me. I stood under the hot spray until I was pretty sure I’d gotten all the benefit possible from it, then as I was drying off noticed the can of Colgate shaving cream I’d bought at the grocery store the week before and decided to shave, whether I needed it or not.MoreLess
Looking around me in the gray morning light, I couldn’t see anything wrong or out of place, so I pulled on my Levi’s and went to check the house. Gram was in the kitchen heating water for tea and humming along with the radio, which was quietly playing some old Bob Wills number. L.A. was asleep under her mound of pillows, snorin...g softly. One of the pillows lifted an inch or so and Jazzy peered sleepily out at me from underneath it.
There was nothing suspicious in any of the other rooms, and now that I was all the way awake I was beginning to forget why I needed to protect Gram and L.A. The house itself felt all right. I decided to see if a shower would get the last of the dreams off me. I stood under the hot spray until I was pretty sure I’d gotten all the benefit possible from it, then as I was drying off noticed the can of Colgate shaving cream I’d bought at the grocery store the week before and decided to shave, whether I needed it or not.MoreLess
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