![]() ![]() But then, he played the morning back so many times that the tape was ruined-later it seemed possible that she’d simply been thinking about the weather, and later still he was even willing to consider the possibility that she hadn’t stood in front of the sofa at all-had merely paused there, perhaps, for an instant that the stretched-out reel extended into a moment, a scene, and finally a major plot point. She stood in front of his sofa, running her fingers through her hair to test for dampness, her expression a little blank when he glanced up at her, and it seemed to him later that she’d been considering something, perhaps making up her mind. ![]() He heard her dropping it into the kitchen trash can before she wandered past him into the living room. She came out dressed all in black, as she almost always did, and carrying the three pieces of a plate that had fallen off the bed the night before it was a light shade of blue, and sticky with pomegranate juice. “He heard a dresser drawer slide shut in the bedroom. ![]()
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