Only to Sleep
Lawrence Osborne
"One dry morning a few days later I drove up to San Diego and checked into a little hotel I knew in Hillcrest that long ago used to be charming."
"One dry morning a few days later I drove up to San Diego and checked into a little hotel I knew in Hillcrest that long ago used to be charming."
"I said OK."
"They’d started burrowing the moment he’d come out of the coma, and the depressions they dug deepened every day."
"Beverly Sullivan drops her overnight bag at her feet and lets her eyes sweep around the room."
"Victor sang “We Are the Champions,” nearly screaming the words as he thumped his fist on the steering wheel in rhythm. "
"The policewoman takes me to One Police Plaza, where I wait in a small, stale room on the eighth floor."
"Here in Sandefjord we have everything."
"Didi hankered for another cigarette as she drove, but resisted the urge."
"Jamie shielded her eyes from a gust of wind blowing down the street and crossed the dirt yard in front of her uncle’s trailer."
"I called my mother up last week and told her that Alvie was dead."
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