Attention Must be Paid – Chapter 2

Beck had a difficult time getting up to breakfast that morning. The dining room which overlooked Central Park and which was one of the main draws of the Castle, was on the 14th floor. Beck was on the 4th floor, not facing the park. The building had three elevators, and generally they were crammed with

Mr Beck and the Castle

Beck woke in the middle of the night in what he thought was his own room, but quickly realized he had been dreaming. It wasn’t his own room any longer it was an institution for the poor and old. What had woken him up was the creak of the door opening slowly an a lone