《이처럼 사소한 것들》의 작가 클레어 키건의 단편 소설집 Walk the Blue Fields에 수록된 단편 소설입니다. 작가인 화자는 좋은 기회를 얻어 아름다운 마을의 아름다운 집에 2주간 글을 쓰러 들어갑니다. 화자는 과연 여기서 생산적인 시간을 보낼 수 있을까요?
She undressed, lay down and reached for her book and read the opening paragraph of a Chekhov story. It was a fine paragraph but when she reached its end she felt her eyes closing, and happily she turned out the light knowing that tomorrow would be hers, to work and read and walk along the roads and to the shore.
…She felt she could sit for days, reading and working, seeing no one. She was thinking of her work and how exactly she would start, when the house phone rang.
Athena's Owl 