Up Late
Matt and Jean, both fourteen years old, are lying under a porch, with a candle which is about to go out. It is after one o'clock in the morning, and …
On lying under the porch with Jean, waiting for her father: "I thought it might be practice for being dead, lying there in the dark with the dirt and the dead leaves. I didn't say this to Jean, she doesn't like that kind of stuff. She would say to stop being creepy."