Widow
“She knew all the curses. They did not bother her in the least. Fuck him and his need for her. That's what it was, too, need. Except for Frank . . . and maybe the cop . . . the men she had run into in the clubs were just eaten up with the need for a woman, any make or model of woman. A woman to bed down with, not just to talk to. It was as if all males over the age of fifteen had been stranded on a dry desert island for twenty years without female companionship. Or locked up in the penitentiary.... Which is where most of them belonged.
Either there or the deep-blue sea.
Twenty-Two While Charlene worked she thought about Shadow. It had been a rough night. Every creak in the mansion set her blood pressure soaring. She had developed a headache that no amount of aspirin could touch.
She bent over to wring out the mop in the bucket of Clorox and Pine Sol. She had put off cleaning the ballroom for too long. Now it must be done. She kept the lights blazing the whole time so there would be no shadowy corners calling to her overactive imagination.MoreLess
Either there or the deep-blue sea.
Twenty-Two While Charlene worked she thought about Shadow. It had been a rough night. Every creak in the mansion set her blood pressure soaring. She had developed a headache that no amount of aspirin could touch.
She bent over to wring out the mop in the bucket of Clorox and Pine Sol. She had put off cleaning the ballroom for too long. Now it must be done. She kept the lights blazing the whole time so there would be no shadowy corners calling to her overactive imagination.MoreLess
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