Michael Malone - Weebly

peppers. "You talking about the zoo? They got those
seals locked up at night, long time ago. Drunks and
bums was sneaking in there at night and diving in, and
getting their fingers bit off. And nuts and kooks was
taking potshots at them seals and throwing beer bottles
at them."
"Why?"
"Why? Lady, this here is New York!"
Still, the grass was green. Horns were hushed and
cars no more than blurs of motion. Night breeze shook
awake the leaves on trees and shifted their patterns as
the hansom passed. Yes, there were trees, as real as
those rooted in East Woods and Birch Forest. Leaning
back on Richard's shoulder, Beanie looked up at a sky
luminous with phosphoric crystals like the stars of a
smoky ballroom. A sky haloed in the city's haze. In
Dingley Falls tonight, the sky would be ablaze with
candelabra on black velvet and each star would be
vivid with its own iridescence. Still, in this nimbus sheen,
there was a beauty.
Beautiful to Beanie, though she knew that for her to
be here at all made no sense. Just as love makes no