A Slight Smile Is Very Charming on a Stone Face novel · Chapter 14 of 24
Chapter 14: What He Doesn't Draw
Tobias lived above a laundromat, up a stairway that smelled of dryer sheets.
His door had three locks, and he opened all three with his eyes on his shoes.
"It's small," he said. "And it's a mess."
It was both.
One room held a bed, a kitchen counter and a table covered in pencils.
There was a lamp with a green shade, a radiator that ticked, and a window over the street.
But I did not look at any of that, because of the wall.
It ran the whole length of the room, from the floor to the ceiling.
It was covered in faces.
They were pinned up edge to edge, charcoal and pencil and ink, hundreds of them.
A juror with her mouth pinched.
A bailiff yawning behind his hand.
A man in handcuffs looking at his own shoes.
A child on a witness stand, swinging her feet.
Each one was caught a half second before something happened.
I walked along the wall slowly, and he stayed by the door.
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