Название: Seahorse
Автор: Janice Pariat
Издательство: Ingram
Жанр: Современная зарубежная литература
isbn: 9781939419675
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I didn’t look up, didn’t ask why or where, as I was half-carried and led out into the forest, the trees green and reverent around us. Something ached but I couldn’t tell where the pain arose from, it seemed to surround me, dense as the humid late summer air.
After a while, we reached a wide road lined by Gulmohar trees, bathed in a rich and luxurious silence. The slow, persistent purr of a passing car. The faint jingle of bells. We stopped at a gate where a man rushed out to help us. The exchange of words between them was brief and muted. Soon, I sensed we were indoors, in a cool and high-ceilinged corridor, the creak of doors, the slap of footfall, the voice of a woman. Hands, gentle as cotton, lifted me over, suspended me for a second in mid-air like I’d been only just before, while falling, and then a sudden release onto a soft, smooth plane that stretched endlessly like a field of snow. The unmistakable smell of fresh linen. Of something sharp and lemony. The warmth of wind and sunshine. A heated touch swept over me, a cloth struck at my skin, rough, spongy and damp. Something peeled, layer after infinitesimal layer. And then the deep, dark mercy of sleep.
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