The Handmaid's Tale coverCHAPTER 9
CHAPTER 9

PART 4: WAITING ROOM

CHAPTER NINE

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My room, then. There has to be some space, finally, that I claim as mine, even in this time.
I'm waiting, in my room, which right now is a waiting room. When I go to bed it's a bedroom. The curtains are still wavering in the small wind, the sun outside is still shining, though not in through the window directly. It has moved west. I am trying not to tell stories, or at any rate not this one.