Monday, December 22, 2008

Stump

- You awake?
- What time is it? she said.
- Still night.
- Ahh.
- I love you. Were you ever in love? Apart from Ambrose?
- Yeah.
He was put off by her casual admission.
- I fell in love with a guy named Stump Jones when I was sixteen.
- Stump!
- There was a problem with the name.


(From In The Skin of a Lion by Michael Andaatje)

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