"She sat there with an empty glass in front of her. She was looking at the glass as though it were the page of a book and she were reading a story."and
"`You're young and you're little and it's a shame.'
“`What's a shame?'Heartbeaking, and good evidence for the proposition that compassion is an essential ingredient of noir.
“`Drinking. You shouldn't drink like that.” He raised his hand slowly and tried to form it into a fist so he could hit it on the table. His hand fell limply against the table and he said, `You want a drink?'”
© Peter Rozovsky 2012