The tears began to well up again as she choked out a single word. "Why?"Bush stood on the quarterdeck of the Renown. It was late in the afternoon as his watch ended. But he didn't want to leave for some reason. He strolled to the railing and stared down at the rushing ...
After two years of being sequestered in a windowless room, listening to conversations that showed no signs of espionage, I resigned. That’s when I ended up writing English again. My first stop was a non-profit organization, where I wrote four- to six paged single-spaced, typewritten letters...
The only inn in the town was connected to a windowless spa that offered everything a human body could want and more. In the wooden foyer, a young woman in a beautiful black-red kimono kneeled on a cushion, golden pins and carnations in her hair. Water spilled from a bamboo pipe into ...
Tiny, often windowless rooms open to long dim hallways with bathrooms at the end. At the bottom of the stairs in the basement, showers were provided in rough cement stalls with low concrete walls. A couple Mexicano caretakers live inside it nowadays, at least one of them with woman and ...