Fires: Essays, Poems, Stories by Raymond Carver

Author:Raymond Carver [Carver, Raymond]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Essays, Classics, Short Stories, Poetry, Writing
ISBN: 9781101970621
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 1977-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

He gets up from his chair and refills their glasses.

That’s it, he says. End of story. I admit it’s not much of one.

I was interested, she says. It was very interesting if you want to know. But what happened? she says. I mean later.

He shrugs and carries his drink over to the window. It’s dark now but still snowing.

Things change, he says. I don’t know how they do. But they do without your realizing it or wanting them to.

Yes, that’s true, only—but she does not finish what she started.

She drops the subject then. In the window’s reflection he sees her study her nails. Then she raises her head. Speaking brightly, she asks if he is going to show her the city, after all.

He says, Put your boots on and let’s go.

But he stays by the window, remembering that life. They had laughed. They had leaned on each other and laughed until the tears had come, while everything else—the cold and where he’d go in it—was outside, for a while anyway.

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