These Dreams of You

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Parker is so enthralled with the game that Zan can’t resist paying £80 for it that they can’t afford. Back in the room, the boy puts on hold the pending fourth issue of Shrimpy Comix to spend the night gluing little creatures and painting them; for Sheba, Zan buys a smaller preassembled set that she complains is smaller than Parker’s and preassembled. The only thing the father can find on the hotel television is news.

When he goes online and learns the house has been scheduled for foreclosure in three weeks, only then does he realize how numb to everything he’s become.