Joyce Carol Oates pens a short story about an evening close to Halloween, and a recently widowed woman visited by a threatening Bosnian graduate student in a pumpkin mask.
This October evening, before the sun had entirely set, a pair of headlights turned in to the driveway, some distance away by the road. She was startled into alertness—at first not sure where she was. Then she remembered: Anton Kruppev was dropping by to see her. Dropping by, he’d said. Or maybe she’d said, Why don’t you drop by? She couldn’t make out his face. He was driving a pickup truck with white lettering on one side.
He drifted about Hadley’s living room, peering at her bookshelves. Excitedly he talked—he had so much to say! He reminded Hadley of a chattering bird, a large endearingly gawky bird like an ostrich, long-legged, long-necked, with a beaky face, quick-darting inquisitive eyes. His upper body, now that he’d removed his nylon parka, was bony, concave. Hadley imagined that he would be waxy-pale beneath his shirt. A hairless chest. A little potbelly, and spindly legs. Hadley laughed.
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