5th and 56th -- Julia's challenge

[Gita]

He brushed the stove clean and made a fire.   Keeping his eyes open and his mouth shut, he finished unloading and backed out through the swinging doors.   

On this Saturday, as on every other morning, the old ladies sat looking out into the bright haze that struck off the water along the Durban beachfront.  

 She didn’t know what it was at first, but then it hit her: all these faces were familiar.   

“Yes!”   

All of life’s mistakes made sense in the end.

 

 Randomly selected from my bookshelves:

1. Life & Times of Michael K by J.M. Coetzee.

2. Recapitulation by Wallace Stegner.

3. A Bit of Young Life, from Selected Stories by Nadine Gordimer

4. Tortilla Curtain by T. Coraghessan Boyle.

5. Atonement by Ian McEwan

6. Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri.

 

[Michael Brown]

Smooth as silk. It's as if all these lines had been separated at birth and were just waiting for you to come along and reunite them.

[Teresa]

This will be fun.  Yours made so much sense.  Line six is so wonderful.

[Jeanette Cheezum]

Great job, Gita.:)

[Mike Handley]

I looked at six books on my shelf. Two had nothing on page 56. The other three lines sucked (out of context). :-(

[Gita]

I had to find some order to put them in. I was worried because the first one I found was the single word Yes. I thought, uh-oh.

[jkdavies]

It is amazing how they all flow together, isn't it!