They didn’t matter. Nothing mattered but sitting here.“Okay,” a voice said, coming from the redheaded director. She looked young, almost a teena...ger, but I felt she was older. She had a wedding ring on. “Action.”I suddenly felt so sleepy. I stretched my back and yawned, my pigtails swaying. Then I curled down and lay on my side on the couch. My eyes closed. I fell into regular breathing. I wasn’t quite asleep, but I was pretending to be. I was just so tired.I heard Daddy entering the room. I. When the movie was over, I got up and made my way to the kitchen to get myself a drink but just as I opened the fridge I heard keys being inserted into the lock.I paniced and didn’t have time to grab my clothes off the couch and just ran to my room just as mom opened the door. I wasn’t sure if she seen me as the door closed but I heard her stumbling around so I think she was drinking which was good. I tried to take off the teddy but it was so tight it was hard to get off and if I damaged it. But how was I going to convince her? Undoubtedly she would resist. I was going to have to give this some thought.On Friday, I got a surprise visitor. Greg Chandler, my boss and publisher of the local Clarion, dropped in to see me."Hello, Greg. What brings you all the way up here?" I asked, shaking his hand and inviting him in."Hello, Nolan. My, you've really done some nice work on your home. I really like the look of it," he remarked."Thanks. I've had some help from a professional interior. . I'm not sure I got all the nuances, though." Tarkovsky has been called a visual poet. He approaches the story slowly and obliquely. You understood that they were on a space station around an alien planet." Yes, I got that." And, that the planet is completely covered by an ocean that appears to be a single, sentient organism." Yes, I got that, too." The ocean can read their minds and project facsimiles of people they knew." Yeah, I saw that. The main character ... Kris?" Kris Kelvin," he.