Sunday Sentence

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In which I participate in David Abrams’s “Sunday Sentence” project, sharing the best sentence I’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.”

Afterward, a mute shower, his second of the day, while the chatter that had clung to him drained into the hospital’s sewer.

Source: Edith Pearlman, “Castle 4,” in Honeydew: Stories