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diff --git a/assault.mdwn b/assault.mdwn index f1a0c92..213004d 100644 --- a/assault.mdwn +++ b/assault.mdwn @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ It's been a couple of weeks. It's late on Thursday evening. Anna is sitting in the subway train, on a bench. On the Helsinki subway the -trains are orange, and the benches are orange. Ths benches are in +trains are orange, and the benches are orange. The benches are in pairs to form booths, ostensibly to get the famously asocial locals to be modern and urban. In practice, it meant they read books, newspapers, or, these days, looked at their smartphones. Or out of the @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ spiritually. A pair of twentysomethings come into the train car, and shove into the booth with Anna. She shifts a little. The young men are both drunk, -the other much more than the other. They carry large bags, and a bag +one much more than the other. They carry large bags, and a bag of takeout from an transnational hamburger restaurant chain. Anna dubs them as Dumb and Dumber. Dumb is carrying the food, and what @@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ He came over and took care of my face, and held me while I cried." like gentleman." "Yes, he was very gentle." Anna makes a wry smile, then winces. -Smiling is clearly painful. The takes a pill bottle from her drawer, +Smiling is clearly painful. She takes a pill bottle from her drawer, extracts a pill, and takes it with a gulp from the glass of water on her desk. @@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ mental healing process, but I don't really want to re-live it with everyone separately. Sorry. I didn't tell the police, you know how they've treated me before, when I've been raped. Don't trust them." -"Oh, sister mine, nothing to be sorry for. I know exactly how you +"Oh, sister of mine, nothing to be sorry for. I know exactly how you feel. I'm here if you want or need to talk, about anything, at any time, but there's no pressure. OK?" |