You Live Once
“I fed my martini hunger on spaghetti al dente with sailor sauce, read the evening paper’s rehash of our big murder and went back to my apartment. I parked the car, started toward my door, then decided to walk off the spaghetti heaviness. It was just getting dark. Children shrilled and leaped the barberry hedges. I walked by the yellow house and wondered which window was Toni’s.
I guess I walked aimlessly for nearly an hour, turning right or left on impulse, but gradually circling back toward my... place. I suddenly remembered the trash, and my promise to Mrs. Speers. It wouldn’t be too late. I lengthened my stride. From far up the street I saw the lights in my windows. I hadn’t been in to leave any on. I left the sidewalk and started across the grass of the big side lawn. I planned to stare in my windows and see who it was who felt so much at home. One key was in my pocket. I had given the other to Mary Olan, and it had been used to put her in my closet. It made me feel strange to see the lights.MoreLess
I guess I walked aimlessly for nearly an hour, turning right or left on impulse, but gradually circling back toward my... place. I suddenly remembered the trash, and my promise to Mrs. Speers. It wouldn’t be too late. I lengthened my stride. From far up the street I saw the lights in my windows. I hadn’t been in to leave any on. I left the sidewalk and started across the grass of the big side lawn. I planned to stare in my windows and see who it was who felt so much at home. One key was in my pocket. I had given the other to Mary Olan, and it had been used to put her in my closet. It made me feel strange to see the lights.MoreLess
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