The Collected Stories of Diane Williams by Diane Williams

Author:Diane Williams
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Tags: Literary Fiction
Publisher: Soho Press
Published: 2018-07-31T20:23:58+00:00

Upright Pearl

How about the deity responsible for me?—why should it not move me through the realm, escort me to the other side of the predicament?

“Come now,” I said, “I admire you. Can I ask you for another favor? Please, please. I am a friend of yours.”

I heard singing, high and happy.

There is another oddity over the last years. I ad­mire my darling husband. I gave him my little paw. I said to him, “Are you lonely?”

“Yes, I am,” he said.

He took me by my sleeve which is wrapped in very delicate skin, so you treat it in a special way. He treats all the skin that way. We go into Illinois.

Now come the other ones who stand like peaks, who wear the brown coat, the ochre jacket—very short.

One arrived who ate savory goldfish. She stopped. A surprise now would be best now, a nice one. The trees would not be melancholic. The lightning would be decreasing. An old woman who does not look well would show me her reliability.

The wind would roll us over a ledge and when the rain starts we would go home.

I am ashamed to say I am unhappy and we poured out liquor into our glasses and we drank it.

The disorder in my left knee has returned, and this time for a different reason than the last time, I have pallor, debilitating pain, possibly fever, a no­ticeable tumor involving a tendon, and persistent tingling in my affected good try and first haunting.

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