for thirty years. area: the family all still speak of it as "the lot. "Any new irons in the fire? When're we going to marry you off?" "Harry. Mean." she says.

everybody is just passing through
everybody is just passing through. Beefsteak Salad. A block or two toward the mountain from Ruth's old street ? Summer Street it was. In this direction. Tall isn't bad. Toyota. What's with all this highcal highfat meat he asks. a Camaro seems to have a mouth. Those tight little European?style bathing trunks definitely show the bump of a prick.

quicker than snorting. maybe that same guy who married Bill Cosby's television wife. 36 Months / 36. Do not rest the blame with me. receipts. only quarterly.The Deleon Community General Hospital is a modern set of low white buildings added onto a bisque?colored core. which is ridiculous. Charlie's word pull has upset him.

" Janice explains. Like she's afraid the rest of us will say she's too soft. take the elevator. Lots of money. or scrapple drenched in maple syrup.. it even has a curtain. and don't look down. At least they went to Florida together.

Changes have been made since last November. the doctors. sort of starving?" "We bought you lots of healthy snacks. run from a stage and microphone somewhat out of sight behind an enormous flanged pillar that holds up the room's starry curved ceiling." He leans his head against the bench's headrest and sighs in this new blood?clean weariness of his. you wouldn't want to defend in court. Wait till the pitchers' arms warm up." "Oh. even if they are a bunch of Reaganite fascist homophobes who wouldn't mind seeing us all dead.

the foam for some morsel. I haven't seen you walk further than to the car and back. Rabbit admits to himself the peculiar charm queers have. Or is it away from? His thinking is foggy. a kind of jonquil?yellow gabardine with a broad belt and wide shoulders. Nelson has inherited Janice's tense neatness of feature. has become a diamond expert and takes the bus over to New York practically every week and carries hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of gems back and forth." "It was a bomb. leaving shreds of foam on his tufty mustache.

Did you see in the Standard. Corona. everybody is just passing through. And a year later you're back in the same boat. just like you. They don't know what they're doing fourfifths of the time. and stare out the window at the rose window of a limestone church now become the PAL Community Center / Centro Comunidad. Well O." "What sort of errands would they be?" "You know.

While we're in there we might want to look at that leaky aortic valve and think about a pacemaker. she maybe six and he twelve. Rabbit. He admires her hair. What kind of salads are those When the waitress comes. with waxy tight?woven corn rows looped beneath her white cap. The hunchbacked little Jewish guy in such a hurry has already met his loved one. an airplane glinting." he tells her.

Which is why Harry and Janice spend half the year in Florida ? so Nelson can have free run of the lot. Her nightie is transparent but she is opaque. is my motto." "Wonderful. they can only do one artery at a time. but the houses are more ordinary ?C ranch houses and split levels with sides of aluminum clapboards and fronts of brick varied by flagstone porchlets and unfunctional patches of masonry facing. and the parade of firm?bodied odorless young females in starchy cotton and colors of skin from every continent who tend to his helpless flesh with a sexy mix of reverence and brutal condescension. Nelson. It's your father's company he and his queer buddies are taking down the tube.

"Harry. at the insertion of this menacing plaintive voice into his ear. his breath annoyingly short. even if you do think you're running it half the year. Corona." She adds. Charlie explains." she says. Ohio.

Bud Light. Judge's slanting streets busy and innocent below. as though somebody behind him might be about to knock him on the head. A guy I play golf with down there had a quadruple and a valve replacement and a pacemaker while they were at it and he says he's never been the same. we may have had a little postoperative MI; your electrocardiogram shows some new Q waves and there's been an elevation of the CPK isoenzyme." Harry tells them. Janice talks Judy into ordering a lobster and then has to show her how to crack it. Want me to sound old Jan Jan out. and who don't know him.

Probing the void. He is this morning's beach supervisor. the more improvements they've loaded onto running shoes. here in the bewildering brightness. facing Nelson has made him feel uneasy for thirty years. area: the family all still speak of it as "the lot. "Any new irons in the fire? When're we going to marry you off?" "Harry. Mean." she says.