Gladice Giddy

Gladice Giddy built her house on a hill and peopled her garden with plants and flowers. She worked at the post office and lived on a house on a hill. For reasons of inexperience and masculinity, she didn't have a personality. But she was quite pretty.

She also didn't have a spouse or a partner to speak, and that was because of resentment and mild jealousy, and a brief shelving of the personal. She didn't have any aspirations either, and that was due to ineptitude and stubbornness. All she had was a house on a hill.

Gladice was never happy or sad and never tried to be. Everyday she awoke from sleep and either went to work or didn't. She always ate breakfast and dinner at home and almost always ate lunch at the post office. She never read books or watched T.V or listened to music.

She spent her free time staring out the window of her house on the hill. She believed in heaven only in the sense that she believed death was heaven. Sleeping for her was as good as it got. She never dreamt.