Blind Girls by Jayne Anne Phillips, 1979
The magic trick:
Evil, murderous tone
I’ve read this story three times now (it’s only one page), and I still don’t know what happened.
I’m not sure I need to know.
What I know is that it’s murderous and dark and ominous and scary.
The mood is established.
And that’s quite a trick on Phillips’s part.
The selection:
Finally she told their favorite, the one about the girl and her boyfriend parked on a country road on a night like this, with the wind blowing and then rain, the whole sky sobbing potato juice. Please let’s leave, pleads girlie, It sounds like something scratching at the car. For God’s sake, grumbles boyfriend, and takes off squealing.
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