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Jul 12, 2010 19:16

Steinbeck talks about the Badlands in Travels With Charley; he finds them strange and desolate.

Maybe it's just her mood--also strange and a little desolate--but she kind of likes them.

The cabin is called The Tarpaper Shack, but it isn't really. It's a neat and tidy cabin with its own little generator and its own little well and a dusty mile long ( Read more... )

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cutting_edgex23 July 13 2010, 01:34:09 UTC
Ring.

Ring.

Ri --

"Rose," X says, tucking the last of her laundry away in a drawer.

"You are okay?"

She's ready to move in a second if she has to, if something has gone wrong.

It is what she does.

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ofthatantet July 13 2010, 01:36:48 UTC
"I'm good," she says, and she's interested to realize it's true.

"Do you wanna hang out?"

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cutting_edgex23 July 13 2010, 01:38:54 UTC
X blinks.

Once.

But there is no one in her apartment to see if she is startled or not.

(The cats and the fish do not care.)

"Okay."

Beat.

"Here? Or there?"

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ofthatantet July 13 2010, 01:40:32 UTC
"Wanna come here? It's nice here."

She's out on the porch, watching the stars come out.

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