The Word Exchange by Alena Graedon

Author:Alena Graedon [Graedon, Alena]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction
ISBN: 9780385537667
Google: oZ6NAQAAQBAJ
Amazon: B00FUZQY7I
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 2014-04-08T07:00:00+00:00

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1. Very new, in fact—I’d had to get yet another one after Thanksgiving night, when mine started acting strange.

2. I soon got an invitation to it from Chandra in marketing, and a forward from Vera; I deleted both unread.

3. I still had Doug’s Aleph, but I’d locked it away in a large, plaid, rolling suitcase that I’d shoved under the bed. I’d taken the Aleph out a few times and flicked through, but without finding anything new.

4. That’s how I’d found the window note explaining that it was closed.

5. After I read that brochure, I started seeing this phrase pervasively, especially sprayed on Nautilus billboards.

6. Once when I was young he made a fort with me beneath the Steinway in that Connecticut house. We used the cushions of my grandparents’ couch and blankets from one of the guest beds, and had tea and cookies underneath. Then I rested my head on his bouncing stomach while he read Wind in the Willows aloud. We fell asleep, and woke to my grandmother screeching, “What deranged person would put my cushions on the floor?”

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