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SHORT STORY DISPENSER Select your reading time Cartempor 1 Cracks in the Wall Die Booth minute "it's an old building," Becky said, when Pe ter asked her "Do you get thees in your apartment, too?" She d given him a look, then, as # she thought he was trying to score an invite into ber place, as if this was anything more than doormat chatter. As if he was interested in women, anyway When she reached the stairs, she looked back at him just a glance unreadable and strange and he d dropped his keys. When he looked up again, vaguely eembarrassed at his fumbling, she'd gone As soon as the dawe sun pawed between the bilinds. Peter was awake and studying thers again the cracks They were hard to miss, when his bed was butted Aush sp against the wall his nose inches away froes the yellowing plaster Per haps Becky was right. It was an okt build ing The rooms were sufused with a deli cate sniff of damp At first he d eoticed just minutes 5 minutes Printed on FSC artied paper COtainable torest mangemer a few, but soor he could see that the whole wall was a welb of hairlines, ke craque vegined, designed ane lure on an Old Master Theve wa* proba bly mildew He was likely breathing in mold shortitinn n France spores day and night. He woudde t be sur prised if the entire thing came down on him a mud bank in rain But it dide't forgot about the cracks But at right. they became more preoccupying than ever Of course, it was impossible f them to be visible there in the mute dark But he was When he was out and about Peter mostly aware of thems Lying there quietly poling humid breath on the edge of unconscios 5 ness they troubled him Emblazoned upo the inside of his eyelids a migraine of lick 3 min ering capillaries He started to think about the cracks a lot *Huh?* sakd Becky drew the words out pa tiently "Penny fow your thoughns? You're miles away Miles away Lost Peter felt it dragged from contermplation by her voice He felt a susd den irational hurch of guit to be caught thinking about the cracke ly an actual per Son He caoncocted a weak smile ght need glasses He looked at her paused at the onance to next-door, bag of groceries at her feet Het trown was perfectly in focus as she said "Oh It comes to us all Age Right "Right Yeah" The opticians set him straight He didnt need glasses. 7hey tested for slaucoma and retinal deachment, injury and cararacts but conirned only 20/20 vision vmg beneath his sheets. he watched the wals The cracks soerned to pulse, as if the rtáditinn Qne hand Perer trailed a nail across the plaster is felt smooth. Unbroken He shid e welee of his thumbmail along the path of rck rviig t wecge it in. but to no He wwailThe frure s a tare Even when Fre srartes t plck hs outdntRt purchase Hews be mainE HAnd xet ed co telle for thhe mtle hm of he all s l 2 hed the wall his ad on e w n tsht i e brshd the t kbt still vre there hre fo ru back, art alkne aa he air besnd an weried pra he wste deepey har e

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