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under the stars and branches we prefer to store up our excitement as we are not naturally that way it seemed to get murkier by the minute she had hated summer vacations on the other side of the thin wall the doors were painted brown he began polishing the inside doorhandle which seemed to get murkier by the minute they preferred to bottle up their excitement with no way of knowing what they wanted on the other side of the thin wall the remorse and the vibrating nerves began polishing the inside door handle the doors were painted brown but could use a new coat she had always hated summer vacations under the stars and branches with remorse and vibrating nerves he was gone beyond recall "for god's sake we can't make love in a room with a brown door" there was no way of knowing what she wanted he was gone beyond recall he looked up over his glass of wine things seemed to get murkier by the minute with no way of knowing what they wanted on the other side of the thin wall sources: last men in london, by olaf stapledon; baudelaire, by jean-paul sartre; thirst for love, by yukio mishima; don't look now, by daphne du maurier; rebecca, by daphne du maurier; the engagement, by georges simenon; act of passion, by georges simenon; agent of chaos, by norman spinrad; driven, by richard gehman; man on a leash, by charles williams; "fire escape" by cornell woolrich