A Guide to Being Born: Stories by Ausubel Ramona

Author:Ausubel, Ramona [Ausubel, Ramona]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
Publisher: Penguin Group US
Published: 2013-05-01T20:00:00+00:00

AFTER THE BURIAL I find Belbog asleep under my kitchen windowsill. He is not wet anymore but is still red. I tap him, wake him up, walk him back to his house.

“Have you been here all night?” I ask.

“Is he?” he asks.

“It’s part of the cycle,” I say. Belbog stands in the doorway and watches me. I right his overturned table and sit at it. Look at the street, at the spot where Houdini landed. The street is steaming with heat, already, even this early in the day.

“My name means White God, did you know?” Belbog asks.

“The continent of Europe must be very far away. Are there beautiful women there?”

“The most beautiful anywhere, my father tells me. I hope we will be friends. Perhaps this summer you can come and together we can sell beverages on the side of the road,” Belbog says, and when he finally closes the door, I hear the lock slip, and then the other lock slip and a chain rattle itself into place.

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