Ballad of the Black and Blue Mind
Anne Roiphe
“It wouldn’t be polite to ask Dr. Berman if she was listening. He was sitting opposite her in the patient’s chair but he was not a patient.”
“It wouldn’t be polite to ask Dr. Berman if she was listening. He was sitting opposite her in the patient’s chair but he was not a patient.”
“They were married now and had been told they should make their wills, as if that was the next step in life, so one day they went together to see a solicitor, Mr Reeves.”
“A man. Standing, watching: the beach, the sea. The sea is calm, flat; season indefinite, moment lingering. The man stands on a boardwalk over the sand.”
“The last ice cube free-falls into the watery ice bucket. The ice machine rumbles angrily and then sighs, sputtering the last of anything it has, a spray of water coating the miniature glacier at the bottom of the bucket.”