Marina’s Reviews > Brightly Shining > Status Update

"Sometimes she says, 'I’m afraid we simply didn’t get the original bill' , and sometimes she says, 'I’m afraid he’s simply been knocked off his feet with this pneumonia' , and once she just said, 'hello, two motherless children and an alcoholic here, can you please give us two more weeks?'"

"He went on sitting on the edge of my bed. Every night he sat there. He undid my tangles and talked to me about the deepest forests and the narrowest paths. He spoke the names as well, Forest of the Finns , he said, Fathom Isle and Femund Field, but now it’s getting late, and my Little Rainy-Day Fund’s got to sleep."