today i got my car stuck in the mud in an empty lot trying to look at the sunset and there was some kid on the phone watching me try to get my car out, and after a few minutes he came over and said “do you need any help? i can’t lie i started laughing really hard when i saw you get stuck but then i was like maybe i should go over and help her” and i was like “thanks, do you know how to help?” and he said “no i’m only thirteen years old”
I dreamed I was in a wood—somewhere far away from everybody,—and I was lying down and a great blackberry vine grew over me. And I called and called to you—and you wouldn’t come—you wouldn’t come—so I had to lie there for ever.
Katherine Mansfield, from “Six Years After”, in The Collected Stories
Katherine Mansfield, from “Six Years After”, in The Collected Stories
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