Inhabited. Charlie Quimby

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СКАЧАТЬ knife. The blade snicked the pad of her thumb, drawing blood.

      “This is probably enough limes.” Terri examined the wound. She wetted a tea towel for Meg and went in search of a bandage.

      Meg dropped the knife into the sink and put pressure on the cut. A dull summer house knife meets a round fruit in a tipsy moment. Now the hand holding the towel reacquaints itself with the bloodied one. Easy to blame the neglected blade or the tough rind, but her wound resulted from losing awareness. Was that the purpose of pain, to bring us back to ourselves? Was the purpose of inattention to escape our pain?

      The kitchen clock read twelve forty. It had to be later. The second hand ticked against the seventeen and did not advance. She heard its faint buzz now, like a fly tapping the windowpane. She ran cold water over her thumb. The cut didn’t hurt any more but the idea of the laceration opening its tiny mouth turned her stomach.

      Terri returned with a Band-Aid tin. “Let’s see. Good and clean. All I found for disinfectant was horse liniment so we’ll forget that.”

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