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...Make it quick, Old Man. I've got a date with my girl." You listen to him swing from the bottle and feel a white sheet flutter down around your neck. You look at the sheet, the curious bloodstains...
...children are asked to draw pictures of themselves. Each selects a Magic Marker. Michael chooses black. He draws a small circle at the top of the paper, then, unsatisfied, flips the sheet over and begins to draw a small stick figure. The two young women suggest that the children lay their heads directly on the paper; Betsy will draw an outline of their heads, and the children may fill in the features. Carmen and Elena respond at once and begin to work. Ralphy balks and starts to play elsewhere. He is taken out of the room by Lori...
Instead of addressing his own sheet of paper, he turns to one Betsy has been working on; she is occupied with Carmen. He draws a satanic face within Betsy's outline. "The devil is in her," he says to no one in particular. Elena draws a girl with a thick brown ponytail, like her own. The hair Carmen gives herself is half black, half red. Michael to Betsy: "The devil is in your heart, and he is trying to make you bad." Betsy watches as he covers the picture of her face with a cyclone of circles...
...afraid," said with no emotion. He folds another sheet and raises and lowers it in the air. He mutters, "Bird...
...small craft of every kind, antic parodies and phantoms of seaside fun, not one of which will float. There is a dory made of concrete and a small runabout, or rather the Platonic ghost of one, made of glass reinforced with wire mesh; a sailing dinghy made of sheet copper; and a trio of bright blue, toylike sailing boats, one of them toppled as by a puff in the bathtub. There are also wooden fences, sheds and nondescript little structures of a vaguely maritime sort. The boats and sheds crop up again around the walls in big, lush paintings...