Sunday, August 17, 2008

The view from Mems house

When I got out of the car I said to Nick.
"My god. The silence here is almost deafening."
My ears felt numb, as if they were in a vacuum. By the next morning I had gotten used to it. By then I could hear the waves lapping on the shore in the bay below the house. This morning I heard somebody cough,  inside their villa, a half mile away.

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