half-torn-down

Updated: May 22, 2025

And even as she watched Denny Bolton swung around from a long contemplation of that half-torn-down building to peer up at his own dark place on the hill to peer straight back into the eyes of the girl whom he could not even see. She saw the bewilderment in that big body's poise; even at that distance she sensed his dumb, numbed uncomprehension.

Larry Evans - Once to Every Man