The Vacation, 1963 | |
The Veldt, 1950"George, I wish you'd look at the nursery." "What's wrong with it?" "I don't know." "Well, then." "I just want you to look at it, is all, or call a psychologist in to look at it." "What would a psychologist want with a nursery?" "You know very well what he'd want." His wife paused in the middle of the kitchen and watched the stove busy humming to itself, making supper for four. "It's just that the nursery is different now than it was." "All right, let's have a look." Read comments (1) | |
The Very Gentle Murders, 1994Joshua Enderby awoke in the middle of the night because e felt someone's fingers at his throat. In the rich darkness above him he sensed but could not see his wife's frail, skelatinous weight seated on his chest while she dabbled and clenched tremblingly again and again at his neck. He opened his eyes wide. He realized what she was trying to do. It was so ridiculous he almost cried out with laughter! His rickety, jaundiced, eighty-five-year-old wife was trying to strangle him! | |
Virgin Resusitas, 1997 | |
The Visit, 2008She had called and there was to be a visit. At first the young man had been reluctant, had said no, no thanks, he was sorry, he understood, but no. But then when he heard her silence on the other end of the telephone, no sound at all, but the kind of grief which keeps to itself, he had waited a long while and then said, yes, all right, come over, but, please, don't stay too long. This is a strange situation and I don't know how to handle it. Nor did she. Going to the young man's apartment, she wondered what she would say and how she would react, and what he would say. She was terribly afraid of doing something so emotional that he would have to push her out of the apartment and slam the door. | |
The Visitor, 1948 |