Walls of Silence by Philip Jolowicz

Author:Philip Jolowicz [Silence, Walls of]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

When I opened my eyes again, I was staring at a forty-watt bulb dangling from a ceiling of gray-stained Styrofoam tiles.

At my side knelt a girl. She was thin, almost emaciated, eyes deep and tragic, and her skin, despite its blackness, showed the ravages of acne or something worse.

She was naked.

So was I.

I looked down the plateau of my chest and could see my penis, semierect and unsheathed.

Christ, please, no. Tell me I didn’t. Tell me that much at least. I didn’t feel like I’d felt with Carol after we’d made love, but our union hadn’t taken place in a squalid box on a filthy mattress, bathed in the light of a forty-watt bulb.

I sat up and pulled my shirt across me, trying to wipe away the sweat that drenched me. Sweat from sex? It was hot enough to make a sleeping salamander leak buckets, so maybe it didn’t signify anything. But how could I be sure?

“Did I . . . I mean we. Well, did we?”

The girl looked at me blankly and brushed her hair.

She then picked up a little notebook and wrote a number on a page with lots of numbers already on it. Five hundred, she wrote.

I owed her five hundred rupees. Eleven dollars. Jesus.

She closed the notebook. It was a school notebook. It had a crest on it. A little elephant with four arms.

The door creaked open and Raj’s grinning face appeared.

“I told you it would be interesting,” he said.

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