Unrue - Love hotel

JANE UNRUE Love Hotel A NEW DIRECTIONS EBOOK Day 1 Immediately striking was the silence no faint music low lighting inducing a feeling of One morning a man and his wife were working in the hay. I felt none of what I had imagined feeling before I left my apartment building none of what I felt when I got on the train. Encased in frosted glass marked by a placard indicating no sign in requirements wasthe reception desk. The room selection panel resided in a dim corridor indicated bya freestanding sign to the left of the reception desk. As the guidebook explainedsome room selection panels display color photographs amenities the prices peak offpeak. This was just a grid of numbered buttons lit ones vacant not too many vacants.Press it stick your card key falls card pops means time has come to leave behind thelobby. I took the elevator sweet perfume entwined in smoky mens cologne up.

On the train I imagined that I was the woman sitting across from me.I have no memory of what this woman looked like what she was wearing whatpossessions she had with her on the train. Right back into the elevator. L The man told his wife to climb up on the stack of hay. After an unproductive stop at the room selection panel I slid my key under thereception desk window. Excuse me this room seems to be missing I said. A formappeared behind the frosted glass. I looked all over two but its not there I said.The sound of sandy bottom shoes.

Another key beneath the window. So theres tile back there behind the reception desk I told myself. New key in hand I passed the room selection corridor again. Dark carpeting out here embellished the elevator closing with an even darker pattern conveying a message that eyes might peekfrom underneath the pattern in the hope of catching someones falling gaze. On the train while imagining that I was the woman sitting across from me I slippedinto a dream that I was in a country cottage taking care of a little boy. I dontknow how old the boy was.

I recall observing that although he was a little boy heseemed very small for his age. When I awoke due to a jolt experienced by the trainthe woman sitting across from me was looking straight into my eyes. I rememberthinking: I know what youre thinking youre right under the circumstances there isno surprise in this. What was truly shocking however was that the little boy in the dream I remember remembering was not just small for his age he was downright tiny my eyes wandering to the trainwindow as if I might see him careening white against the black sky. He was a boywhom I regarded as birdlike. He was not at any time in the dream a bird.

As long ashe was alive he was a boy the real point of the dream seeming to be that somehowthis little boy had died in my arms his body having been transferred to a largeheavy plate in my lap. As a clock in the cottage slowly ticked I midnight on the train I watched the decomposing of the boy on the noonday in the dream blood organs flesh The man disappeared into the field. It was in response to their plea that my journey was initiated. When a person who has not known suffering walks into a certain kind of room she willbe saddened shocked confused by what she feels by what she knows has happened there. After a quick run through of my belongings I emerged from my apartment building withmy rolling suitcase tote bag other little things that I might matchbook in my hand I was recalling information so ornately irresistibly The night we met he motioned to a padded chair said Please sit down. Hefilled our glasses. Candles glowed expectantly.

The air was crisp the detailsintimately mesmerizingly the edges laced in black black satin piping jewel encrusted insects black adhered to Theres a spider jewelbacked on the Now its on the Thus the story white French netting had begun. A peanut butter sandwich candy muffin peanuts water notebook in mytote bag suitcase smartly packed it was already dark when the train pulled out ofthe station. As soon as one layer of the little boy vanished the next layervanished until eventually save the bones the tufts of hair the scatterings of dustno head there was not anything remaining on the plate. I took the elevator right back down to L. When I arrived at that hotel identified Its one of those she whispered where they go for just onenight. as where to stay their guidebook not at all insistent Know what I mean? she whispered. by a matchbook instantly my feelings totally Day Four: Having recently returned from walking to the CORNER SOUTHMOST of their estate where oncea tiny house had stood we I felt so at home I knew that I could never get enough.

I did not want to leave. Icould not even bear to think about a time when I would were together on the VERANDAH . When I got to that hotel however I stepped down into the patio protected by a wall oftextured brick. A flagstone walkway curved around a bed of flowers. Filled with dread I tried to keep from seeing hearing There is someone in my room I repeated into the tiny opening in the frosted glasswindow of the reception desk. I mean to say I tried so hard to keep from being seen.

New key in hand I took the elevator up. Ill try to trace this back to where it started from. The night we met One day a man and his wife as I proceeded down their HALLWAY SECOND FLOOR then down their STAIRCASE MAIN were working in the down the HALLWAY GROUND FLOOR passing three closed doors I felt so homesick for my bed my windowsfloorswere working in the even for my walls. But at the same time just as soon as I had seen themseated in their STUDY I Wed both completely understand he said to me when five nights later we hadmoved to the VERANDAH where she saidto me If you feel you cant do it When the night we met I saw them seated in the STUDY I felt more at home than I hadever felt before. But previous to that moment I had They were working in the hay. As I proceeded down the HALLWAY SECOND FLOOR I passed the door intotheir NURSERY DAY. If I had gone inside the NURSERY DAY then stepped into the Had I innocently crossed the border from the one into the other then I might havefound a secret doorway to a tightly curling staircase down into the GROUND FLOOR corner of their KITCHEN terminating on their BASEMENT floor.

You see Wed both completely understand. the night we met they took me out to their estate. They took me in their mansion. Led me up the STAIRCASE NORTH up to the SECOND FLOOR where all thebedrooms were. We have two nurseries up here too he said.Connectedfrom inside. He pointed to a door. Explaining that attaching to the NURSERY DAY was No there was not any hallway door into the NURSERY NIGHT.

The only way to get into the NURSERY NIGHT was if you entered through He said But you wont need to go in there. Across the hall then down a bit she opened up a door into a pretty lemon yellow sitting room connected to a bathroom. She said When youve freshened up Come down he interrupted. You can find us in the study she said. Fourth door on the left he said. I cant! He first considers turning walking straight into the park but then considers turningback to where he started. No! Nor will he He There is a lake within the park a platform for a band raised terrace lined withstatues. No! Nor will he He There is a lake within the park a platform for a band raised terrace lined withstatues.