To Have Some Care in the Night

Awake one night is a man who temporarily can't sleep. And in the bed next to him a girl lies. And he listens to her soft breathing and he thinks he can hear her sigh... As the dawn not yet broken will come soon, he considers how he got to be lying in this bed with the girl... this girl he is with now, and what she has to tell him still...And then what more can he do or have in life, or is there for anyone, him say, to do or be... Can the girl give him the answers he might like... a girl who is asleep on the pillow next to him...Some of the material for this book appears in part or in altered form in more than one of Earnest Long's stories These are 'Leaving Some Things Behind', and 'To Have Some Care in the Night', and 'Never Too Late'.