Her cardigan sweater was burning, too. The porch stairs were every bit as steep as he had feared, but even if there had been a wheelchair ramp (a possibility he never would have accepted in a spirited game of Can You?
Maybe well talk about that later. If he had spoken of a village census in Little Dunthorpe, she might have shown some interest. "He hesitated, looked at the pile of typescript with the ragged stack of handwritten pages on top, then back at Annie. Although she was the most levelheaded and practical of women, the sudden outburst of knocking startled a little scream from her, and she scalded herself with the hot milk she had been pouring from pot to cup.
When a manic-depressive personality begins to slide deeply into a depressive period, he had written, one symptom he or she may exhibit is acts of self-punishment: slapping, punching, pinching, burning ones self w/ cigarette butts, etc He was suddenly very scared. Well, she was a big woman.
But it was also more richly plotted than any Misery novel since the first, and the characters were more lively. Why couldnt that have happened to him Because writers remember everything, Paul.