She plucked a light blue sundress from a hanger in a closet that housed only two other dresses, darker ones, and a man’s XL jersey. Henry was still, eager to get back to work after another long lunch, but unable to move, so he watched her. Lola—or something like that—wore her hair short and curly. […]

The knock at the door was insistent. Although he had waited with a sort of dull dread for this moment for years, it still surprised him that it was actually happening. The fist, finally, on the other side of the door. Thug thug. /Pause. /  Thug thug thug. He swung his legs out of bed, […]