In desperation he pushed back the blankets
with his hands for the first time, hoping against hope that it wasnt as bad as
the shapes the blankets made seemed to suggest it was. The Masked Avenger, and
Flash Gordon, even one about Frank Buck, the man who went to Africa to catch
wild animals and who could subdue lions and tigers just by staring at
them.
The picture was of a
flowered meadow and the month said May, but Paul kept his own dates now on a
piece of scrap paper, and according to his home-made calendar it was June
21.
He awoke time after time in the middle of the night using the big toe of his right foot to scratch thin air four inches below the place where, on that side, his body now ended.
He awoke time after time in the middle of the night using the big toe of his right foot to scratch thin air four inches below the place where, on that side, his body now ended.