Kiss [antikvár]

1s,'he was standing at the center of the subway platform, waiting for the uptown train to come in, when the man stepped up to her and punched her.She felt shocking pain and then immediate outrage, how dare he? And then she remembered that this was the city in which she'd been bom and bred, and in this city crazy things happened, and when they happened you tried to protect yourself. So she stepped back and away from hima glimpse of red, he was wearing a red woolen hatand was swinging her handbag at his head when he shoved her toward the edge of the platform.He's crazy, she thought, he's a lunatic, and she said out loud, ''Stop it, are you crazy?" but he grabbed her arm and pulled her toward the very edge of the platform, trying to throw her over, struggling with her. She screamed, she pulled away, tried to pull away, heard her coat tearing up the back when he reached for her again. Each time she moved away from the edge of the platform, he shoved her back again. The red hat, a brown jacket, blue jeansshe saw all these in almost sublim-