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2 | title: Wallpaper | ||
3 | genre: prose | ||
4 | |||
5 | project: | ||
6 | title: "Buildings out of air: Paul in the Woods" | ||
7 | css: paul | ||
8 | order: 31 | ||
9 | next: | ||
10 | - title: Punch | ||
11 | link: punch | ||
12 | - title: Window | ||
13 | link: window | ||
14 | previous: | ||
15 | - title: X-ray | ||
16 | link: x-ray | ||
17 | - title: Underwear | ||
18 | link: underwear | ||
19 | ... | ||
20 | |||
21 | |||
22 | He didn't go back into the shed for a long time. His hatchet was in there, | ||
23 | and his axe. He didn't want to face them. His papers, he decided, could wait | ||
24 | in the top drawer for a while before being looked at again. The pain | ||
25 | medication made him loopy. He couldn't think as well as he was used to, which | ||
26 | wasn't well to begin with. Even saying his thoughts out loud, it was as | ||
27 | though they were on the TV in the next room. Someone was cheering. They had | ||
28 | just won a car. | ||
29 | |||
30 | His mother came in with lunch on a tray. It was hot tomato soup and a grilled | ||
31 | cheese sandwich. "What have you been doing all day" she asked "you haven't | ||
32 | just been staring at the wall have you?" He had been staring at the wall most | ||
33 | of the day. The wall without the window on it, with the woodgrain wallpaper. | ||
34 | "No" he said. "What have you been doing then" she asked setting the tray down | ||
35 | on his lap. He sat up and almost upset it, but she caught it before it | ||
36 | spilled anything. "Composing in my head" he lied. "A novel of my | ||
37 | experience." | ||
38 | |||
39 | "Do you really think anyone will want to read about you" she asked and walked | ||
40 | out of the room. | ||