The Boy in the Window

Shara is told she can take her father home already. The reports of mug s and near rapes prompted her mother to ask if she could quit her job at empire chinese. On nights when her boy friend is unavailable, the boss or his son drives her the eight blocks to the subway stop. And that is enough. With sarah. Fear under girds his glances, his admonitions. Now that she is 14, there is every danger of her falling off. Of course. She is his excitement. She is His calamity.