420 Characters by Lou Beach

Author:Lou Beach [Beach, Lou]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: vl-nfcompvg, Literary, Short Stories (Single Author), Fiction
ISBN: 9780547617930
Google: Z7jZx0RolvMC
Amazon: 0547617933
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2011-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

ANN O'DYNE, nurse, had healing hands, wee mitts sprung from the cuffs of her crisp white tunic. Her voice was gold, a brook in a meadow. It washed away fear and anger, discomfort and pain. She was the pride of the ward, the whole hospital, the surgeon's pal, the patient's savior. At home, her feet hurt, she drank, slept with a butcher, called talk-radio programs, ranted about illegal immigrants and the Jew-run media.

I LIVE IN THE POCKET of a bright paisley shirt —silk—and when the light is just so, I'm in my own private cathedral. I lie back and push out against the fabric with my feet, and the colored light falls in like kids' breakfast cereal. I lived in a canvas shirt once but the guy was always sweating so much it recalled that tent in Ireland near the sea where I first got this assignment.

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