After Dark, My Sweet

    Usually, during the past fifteen odd years, i'd hated to see the morning come. That's a psychotic symptom you know, not wanting to awaken - hating to face things that are bound to be more than you can handle.

After Dark, My Sweet
Jim Thompson
1955

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