Another Woman's Daughter by Fiona Sussman

Author:Fiona Sussman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2015-08-15T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

January 1978

Celia

I could not make out the faces in front of me. They had melted like butter against the glare of the naked light bulb. Even the shouting voices had grown indistinct and muffled. I let my head fall onto my bare chest, and my eyes closed. I could not keep them open any longer. I wanted to sleep. Nothing else mattered. The scalding pain in my vagina had dulled to a throbbing ache; the boiling water they’d forced inside me had long since trickled out. Even the blood from my left ear had dried to a crusty black ribbon.

I slumped there, no longer ashamed of my nakedness. My bruised breasts did not belong to me. I had no tears left to cry, nor words to speak. Sleep was taking over—the blissful blanket of darkness, which had been kept from me for so long.

The heavy metal cell door slammed shut.

I hauled up my head and scanned the room through the slit of my right eye. So there was still some residue of fear inside me after all, still a speck of will to survive.

I braced for more blows.

None came. The square of room was empty.

I lapped it again with my good eye.

No one. They had left. With nothing.

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