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Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Building Stories

Character(s): Landlady; Maid

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Synopsis: The landlady sits quietly in her chair as the maid runs the vacuum cleaner.

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Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Building Stories

Character(s): Landlady; Landlady's Mother

First Line: No... No, I never wanted to have children. To have one's life completely taken over by the needs of another person?

Synopsis: The landlady sits in her chair staring outside as the story point of view moves backward from present time to her youth as a young woman and then as a baby.

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Pages: 2

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Subject Matter

Feature(s): Building Stories

Character(s): Landlady; Landlady's Mother; Landlady's Father; Cousin Bill

First Line: The top of his head. Pink from the sun. A kiss goodbye for me on the way to work.

Synopsis: Various fragmentary recollections of the landlady's father, including how he passed away.

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Reprint Notes: from Granta Magazine #106 (Summer 2009)

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Pages: 2

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Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Building Stories

Character(s): Landlady; Handsome Boy

First Line: When I was little, I loved to play in the stairway. I didn't like going outside.

Synopsis: The landlady reminisces about her experiences in the building's stairway throughout her life, from childhood to present time.

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Reprint Notes: from Chicago Reader (June 28, 2002)

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Pages: 2

Notes: Laid out in the landscape format.

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Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Building Stories

Character(s): Landlady

First Line: Should I take an umbrella? No. I simply can't bear to go back in there... and it's only a short walk to the store..

Synopsis: The landlady goes out to the store as the story time shifts from middle age to young adulthood

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Pages: 2

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Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Building Stories

Character(s): Landlady; Landlady's Mother; Landlady's Father

First Line: I never liked playing with dolls. The glassy stares... the breakable little heads... the dead, floppy arms...

Synopsis: The landlady thinks about various dolls she's had in her life as the story point of view changes from her infancy to young adulthood and middle age and then finally to the present.

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Pages: 2

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Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Building Stories

Character(s): Landlady; Landlady's Mother; Landlady's Father; Maid

First Line: Every morning I'd think she'd died. And then, one day, she did.

Synopsis: The landlady thinks about what she did after her mother finally passed away.

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Pages: 2

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Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Building Stories

Character(s): Landlady; Tenant Boy; Cousin Bill; Gotthold; Earnest

First Line: Mother, I'm leaving. Did she even hear me? Or did she pretend not to again? When is she going to get well?

Synopsis: Scenes from the landlady's young adulthood as she works in a department store and recounts the closest thing she's had to love affairs in her time.

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Pages: 2

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Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Building Stories

Character(s): Landlady; Maid

Synopsis: A wordless sequence as the lady eats breakfast and looks outside.

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Pages: 1