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Word: roomful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stood up and walked naked through the messy room out of the door. She made enchiladas. Soon Scott walked into the kitchen...

Author: By William L. Ripley, | Title: Choosing Fruit | 3/17/1969 | See Source »

...wife interrupted me twice in my darkroom Saturday. Both interruptions were due to phone calls. As I walked with her sown the hall to the living room, I noticed her palor. The excess of flesh creeping beneath the clothes she wears. I imagined how her feet felt in her shoes. The call was from an associate agency. They think I'm on to something since. I'm not at the office on weekends anymore...

Author: By William L. Ripley, | Title: Choosing Fruit | 3/17/1969 | See Source »

...yellowish light shone through the closed drapes. The room was a mess. Outside the traffic had its finest hour. The dirty snow festooned the gutters running harmoniously in the dripping dirty water. The quite sound of water filled the room. Pale yellowish toes protruded from the end of the bed, from beneath a tattered blanket. Not that Scott was tall. He had just inched his way down the bed. He wanted to dabble his feet in the sound of running water...

Author: By William L. Ripley, | Title: Choosing Fruit | 3/17/1969 | See Source »

...seemed as though you imagined him, turning from the drapes and walking across the room. He seemed that, if you didn't concentrate and pay attention, he might vanish. He had very thin bones...

Author: By William L. Ripley, | Title: Choosing Fruit | 3/17/1969 | See Source »

October is a deathly month. The moon is pumpkin sized and vibrant. In a tiny room in Boston, on a night as black as Boston's sooty buildings, Scott lay beneath the blankets and watched the ceiling change color to the rhythm of Mirna's peaceful breathing. A man ran across a graveyard beneath a moon which changed into his mother's smiling face. The graveyard was full of rows of white crosses which pulled backwards beneath the running man's feet so that he made no progress. But he kept running. The moon kept smiling. Scott thought the moon...

Author: By William L. Ripley, | Title: Choosing Fruit | 3/17/1969 | See Source »

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