❝ 3AM SO LITTLE COLUMN A , LITTLE COLUMN B. ❞ HER RESPONSE, SO VERY NATURAL yet shallow and light as the paper mobile that danced against the ceiling, angels spinning in the breeze from the open window with pressed-together hands and halos they rarely had in reality. Meg turned a page of her newspaper, and she looked at him with dark coloured eyes that were more alert than anyone ought to have at half past witching hour, and she folded the newspaper along its precise lines, laid it down and set her scotch glass to it’s side, lined up along the counter top.
NONE TOO SURPRISINGLY , BRIAN HAS HAD WORSE . THE WORLD INSISTS ON PEELING HIS EYELIDS OPEN , AND HE’S FORCED TO THE WAKING WORLD SPRAWLED AND DRIBBLING . The back of his sleeve solves the latter as the room dances above his head in the gloom. Some sweet allusion to death calls him back, but the apparition at the corner of his left eye rather demands his attention. Meg’s methods are questionable, to say the least, but the man does worse to himself. “ Yeah --- ? Yeah. ” His nose aches, sniffing doesn’t rid him of that cold bite, nor the cotton-mouth he suffers. “ Drink, too. ” In the dark she’s just like a dream, half there for him and half not. He could reach out and put his hand right through her. “ You, uh. . ., sure know how to get my attention. ”