Except the Queen (2012)
““Get up, lady, you can’t sleep in the park.”
I sat up, blinking into the dawn. Papers fluttered off me like wings.
The man standing over me was dressed all in dark blue. He had a round face with a nose as flat as a squashed peach, and the same color.
I was not in my bed at the Number 13 house nor—even with the trees I could see around me—was I in my nest in the Greenwood. “Where am I?”
“Riverside Park,” he grumbled.
River side. Then I remembered the sluggish river. And something else.
“Music,” ...I said.
“Not a sound,” he answered. “Did you lose your iPod?”
It was as if we were speaking two different tongues. Perhaps I had been transported to yet another world even as I slept.
“Is it still the New York?” I asked.
“It’s not the New Jersey,” he said.
Suddenly, I recalled the red cap belonging to the piper, though I could not bring up either his face or his name. He had returned me my money. I touched my skirt and could hear the coins rattle.
“Lady, if you have money, what the hell are you doing sleeping out here in the park?”MoreLess
I sat up, blinking into the dawn. Papers fluttered off me like wings.
The man standing over me was dressed all in dark blue. He had a round face with a nose as flat as a squashed peach, and the same color.
I was not in my bed at the Number 13 house nor—even with the trees I could see around me—was I in my nest in the Greenwood. “Where am I?”
“Riverside Park,” he grumbled.
River side. Then I remembered the sluggish river. And something else.
“Music,” ...I said.
“Not a sound,” he answered. “Did you lose your iPod?”
It was as if we were speaking two different tongues. Perhaps I had been transported to yet another world even as I slept.
“Is it still the New York?” I asked.
“It’s not the New Jersey,” he said.
Suddenly, I recalled the red cap belonging to the piper, though I could not bring up either his face or his name. He had returned me my money. I touched my skirt and could hear the coins rattle.
“Lady, if you have money, what the hell are you doing sleeping out here in the park?”MoreLess
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