The Ballad of a Small Player by Lawrence Osborne

Author:Lawrence Osborne [Osborne, Lawrence]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781781090169
Publisher: Hogarth
Published: 2014-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

She turned onto her back and the smoke shot up from her mouth. There was a steeliness in the way she remembered her own life. She put down the pipe.

“They thought I was haughty and would come to nothing. Well, I did come to nothing. But not in the way they predicted. I could have studied—but I was impatient. I didn’t want to be just another pharmacist in some run-down industrial town. I wanted some good luck. I wanted—as we say—the open sky. I can’t say whether I found it or not. I found you.”

She smiled.

“Shall we have some oolong?”

It was nearly dawn, and through the blinds the restless blue of the sea was beginning to materialize. The floating houses bobbing. She filled the kettle and broke more tea into the pot. I put my arm around her middle, drawing her a little toward me, not knowing if I should. Somehow we never made the tea. Instead, we slept again. I felt the space between her sharp shoulder blades, the knobs of the spine. There was a curious swelling along her neck and when I touched it she reached up for a moment and brushed my hand aside.

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