At the sound of the doorbell, a large, rough-coated piebald dog came tumbling down the stairs, frightening the cat (who darted out of sight). The dog was immediately followed by Aimée and Morris’ son (Rennie could never remember how old he was: sixteen? seventeen?), Pierrot, who was dressed in powder blue flannel pyjama bottoms—patterned [...]
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One•XVI•3
Posted in Part One, Section 16, tagged Christ, Jack Rackham, Jolly Roger, octopus, Pierrot, sock monkey on March 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
One•XVI•2
Posted in Part One, Section 16, tagged finial, ginger cat, newel post, scarecrow on March 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Rennie pressed his forehead against the cool glass window of the door and looked inside. A large ginger cat, staring fixedly at him, sat on the midmost stair of the steep, bare, wooden staircase. At the foot of the stairs stood what seemed to be, at first glance, a curiously motionless and disconcertingly [...]
Part One•Section XVI•Paragraph 1
Posted in Part One, Section 16, tagged chien bizarre, fascia, gable, ivy, soffit, threshold on February 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Rennie walked up the narrow pathway leading to Aimée and Morris’ house. It was, he mused, a singular home: a small, cereal box of a semi-detached house, in many ways indistinguishable from all the others on this (rather ugly) street; it was, though, unlike any place else that he had ever been, for it [...]
