![]() ![]() She smelled too, didn't she? He covered her entirely, to the tips of her green toes, left her there. ![]() ![]() Each day after work he would look through the kitchen windows, each day he would find some new change, minute perhaps but recognizable. His attempts at explanations, bizarre even to his own ears, turned them colder still. "None of the neighbors would talk to him now. soft science: looks at the relationship between the narrator and Anne stranger in a strange land in his own backyard and isolated from neighbors the eerie feeling that kept the narrator up at night is the same eerie feeling readers experience "It occurred to him that he was paying her more attention than ever now, and in a moment of higher anger he threw a tarp over her, big and blue and plastic, remnant of boating days." Kathe Koja, "The Neglected Garden" (1991) He put on a pair of khaki jeans and walked barefoot into the backyard, the flashlight set on dim, a wavering oval of pale yellow light across the grass." halfway through, right after Richard left the house "It was a kind of dream, less nightmare than sensation of almost painful confusion, and he woke from it sweaty, scared a little, sat up to turn on the bedside lamp." Kathe Koja, "The Neglected Garden" (1991) ![]()
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