Winter of frozen dreams by Harter Karl

Author:Harter, Karl
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Hoffman, Barbara, Murder, Women murderers
Publisher: Chicago : Contemporary Books
Published: 1990-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

moonlight, and the photos were propped in the china cups that were really tulips. Liza saw dozens of portraits of two melancholy men, Berge and Davies. The photos could have been of the same individual at different periods in life— young man sad and old man sad, or father and son and loneliness.

Liza lit another cigarette. She interjected with pertinent advice about the benefits of sleep and relaxation. A poster on a campus kiosk had advertised a lecture on transcendental meditation. Perhaps they should attend, suggested Liza. They could both use some quiet in their lives, she added, but Barbara withheld a reply. Was Barbara contemplating the idea or being silently scornful?

Liza blew a line of smoke into the darkness and chuckled at a remembrance from the days at Jan's Health Spa.

Liza used to tease that Barbara had perfected a scornful glance and that it was her most frequent expression. A method of maintaining adequate distance, Barbara had laughed, but it was not a joke. Liza remembered how different Barbara was from everyone else in that environment. Barbaras patrons treated her regally. They brought her gifts and trinkets, issued dinner invitations, acclaimed her talents to whoever listened. On Sunday nights men waited hours for thirty-five minutes of her tongue and touch. Her popularity, however, was not universal. The women who worked with Barbara did not view her with the esteem accorded to royalty.

It would have been easy to regard Barbara s disfavor as jealousy due to the attention, or resentment because of the generous tips she earned, or insecurity, for obviously Barbara knew something about men, or was willing to do something to men, that the others didn't. Liza had discerned another dimension to the dynamic. Shy and aloof, Barbara discouraged contact from other women.

As contemptuous as Barbara had acted of the massage parlor atmosphere and its denizens, the small, strange world had affected her profoundly. The drug abuse and

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