SLEEPING

I have several finished (or semi-finished) book length projects.....this is an excerpt from my first novel, HELLO, UGLY, which I finished in 1990. The excerpt here was originally published as a stand-alone segment in Robert W. Howington's EXPERIMENT IN WORDS. My recollection is that it won the Best Fiction Award for that year (and it was '92 or '93, but I'm not exactly sure which). Not sure it deserved such an honor but I'd be lying if I said it didn't make me a happy camper.

Jack?

hm?

Jack?

What?

How are you? Jack?

hm?

Do you know what day it is?

Tuesday I think

Do you know what year it is?

nothing

Jack?

hm?

Would you like to go home, Jack?

nothing

Jack?

hm?

Would you like to go home?

Home

Jack?

I don't have a home

Jack?

nothing

fuzz in my head like it feels when my foot sleeps

and angel fingers I hear them stroking through my hair

fingers that are liars I don't care I can't care

You've been gone a long time, Jack.

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