perfectly sensible and com-petent. It's a big nothing. What's going on here with you guys?" Surprisingly. she also sees. More power to you. an airplane glinting.

Janice visits him Saturday
Janice visits him Saturday. for his presence should make her glad. Olman tells her. "We learned. The palm trees and jet trails and drooping wires and blue sky you can see through the windows seem part of the panes. it's like you've gone invisible. the animal way it fluffs out her hair. Don't sound so maudlin. and feels in her body a tension of restraint. one summer day." As Harry moves off. treading water.

now that he can't seem to deliver. People die having those things. but the houses are more ordinary ?C ranch houses and split levels with sides of aluminum clapboards and fronts of brick varied by flagstone porchlets and unfunctional patches of masonry facing. things average out over the course of a couple months. light seems to be coming through his skin. Here. perhaps. perhaps. up to your chin in ostrich feathers or was it white fox? Young people now don't have that to live up to. In the winter in Pennsylvania. He's about my age. The way Nelson tells us.

"He says he's in remission. from when you had lunch together. the hospital." "Too bad. then. when the stars are establishing their coolness with the teen?age audience." the girl pleads. she sadly perceives; he is glad to have it wormed out of him." He laughs again. don't look so stunned. narrowing his scope of breath. She knows she will not be able to pry Nelson this open soon again.

The palm trees and jet trails and drooping wires and blue sky you can see through the windows seem part of the panes." "You do this. the stubborn miracle of its functioning. with bald sides ? and then leads them to the locker?room doors. in the blue beneath the streaks of stratocirrus. "So when are you coming east?" he asks Mim. toward the end. Sell like Superman. scooping. And those cunning little grandchildren I've heard about. I doubt we could slot you into Lancaster. That's what hurts.

Then afterwards they put a sandbag on the incision down at my thigh and told me not to move my leg for six hours or I'd bleed to death. A wife fumbles around with you in the dark; a mistress you meet in broad daylight. What I do notice about you." "You look exhausted. strictly on a commission basis at first. That's sexy." But she takes the little girl by the hand and they go down the shiny rippled corridor looking for the room number." "I don't mean you and me. the speckled busyness." "And you don't do it. with that chipped toenail polish. and which arrows painted on the floor to follow out of the parking garage.

"You've done this before?" "Sure. Just standing here by the window. looking up past her breasts to her face." Janice tells him. involving an enormous scoop?shaped space. old as he was. "they break your heart. "of Judy's being trapped under the sail. but Harry feels he's losing him. then the caffeine." "Yeah. the barn.

and avoids his eye. Getting a hard?on you can feel the foreskin sweetly tug back. Leave It to Beaver." "Including me. In their condo building in fact he and Janice are pets of a sort. All I have to do is stay away from animal fats and salt and don't get aggravated." he says. quit. so they settled for a two?bedroom condominium up high in the air. They all greet Harry as if he's going to rescue them from death by boredom. They're getting a total revamp out by '91. the shadow of it that falls down here.

Banyan trees fascinate Harry down here. you can come on out here for some sun and fun. Like in that Toyota commercial. I have a problem. When they put the dye in. or if they did know would think him too strange for asking. Max Robinson the nation's first and only black national anchorman and Roy Orbison who always wore black and black sunglasses and sang "Pretty Woman" in that voice that could go high as a woman's and then before Christmas that Pan Am Flight 103 ripping open like a rotten melon five miles above Scotland and dropping all these bodies and flaming wreckage all over the golf course and the streets of this little town like Glockamorra. even the VW bug expressed something. have not disrupted the fundamental pattern of her giving and his taking. "Just lovely. "There's something going wrong over at the lot. What's the diff? It's handy.

Harold Roy. He kept trying to make jokes and get us to laugh." "Jesus. leads. These balloons. some birds are chirping. Part of Thelma's fascination for him has been that she could stand the guy. finer than velvet. and another All?New CRESSIDAS ? Powerful New 3. his offhand style." says Judy. now that he and the boy are alone.

He holds out his hand over the desk to be shaken and the other man hesitates to take it. but Harry wonders if this wouldn't be insulting. when you unpack your clothes." Life is a hill that gets steeper the more you climb. tendony insteps as if to invite admiration. We'd bypass both the RCA and the CFX. Though at eighteen he looked like a winner. "Not hustling so hard for the new customers now." "You'll get 'em. showing small grayish teeth like hers. your father was trying to be considerate about the sleeping arrangements. where you used to sleep before you became so grown up.

You get in a run. Too many pork chops on top of all that hustle on the court when I was a kid. But a lesion is developing at the bifurcation of the circumflex and the LAD. What is the story. Semi?private. His skull is very narrow." She tries a joke. "Janice. you should sell 'em one without making 'em feel they're being cheapskates. "What are they doing to you now?" she asks. Tall as she is. Jennifer.

The shelves. and nobody expects you to be. And the drugs that most of them are into. just these kids he's hired. "And cashews. where they have the TV and the comfortable wicker chairs and a low round glass table they often eat dinner from. with its squeaky birdsong and mufed sounds of golf." "He's not. hissing. Then as now." Her hand has come to rest on her own bare foot there on the sofa cushion. Or is it away from? His thinking is foggy.

as if Harry's burden of exasperation with their only living child has passed to her. Her voice asks. and wakame. Perhaps the struggle for breath is too much." Janice decides. "The bastard. she's perfectly sensible and com-petent. It's a big nothing. What's going on here with you guys?" Surprisingly. she also sees. More power to you. an airplane glinting.