F. Harry Stowe

12 Δεκεμβρίου , 2010

«How do they say thank-you in Greek?»

«Efharisto.»

«Say it again, slowly.»

«F. Harry Stowe.»

«F. Harry Stowe.»

. . .

(From Hammer and sickle, the brand new short story by Don Delillo, Harper’s Magazine, December 2010)

. . .

I opened my eyes sometime before first light and the dream was still there, hovering, nearly touchable. We can’t do justice to our dreams, reworking them in memory. They seem borrowed, part of another life, ours only maybe and only in the farthest margins…