Overheard Starbuck

"When she didn't expect it, pain moved in: quickly taking over her days and nights, her whole apartment. The doctors performed their approved tests. The pain got worse. It was many weeks before she could attempt to arrange the unmade bed her body had become. She hoped against hope she'ld find among its wrinkles, knots and stains some joyful crumbs from her past plumped dreams and drowsy life."
---"Well did she? Huh? Did she?"