At Night All Blood Is Black: A Novel by David Diop

Author:David Diop [Diop, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780374720476
Google: OyPQDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2020-11-10T00:00:00+00:00

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FARY THIAM HAD taken me by the hand, looked me in the eyes, and then, discreetly, farther down. Then Fary had separated herself from the circle of friends we were with. And, a little after she left, I said goodbye to everyone else and I followed Fary, at a distance, as she headed toward the river. In Gandiol, people don’t like to walk at night near the shores of the river because of the goddess Mame Coumba Bang. Fary Thiam and I didn’t see anyone, thanks to this fear of the river goddess. Fary and I were too, too eager to make love to be afraid.

God’s truth, Fary didn’t look back a single time. She was headed toward a little forest of ebony trees not far from the river below. She disappeared into it and I followed her. When I found her, I saw that Fary had her back up against a tree. She was standing facing me, she was waiting for me. It was a full moon, but the ebony trees were so close together they shaded out the moon. I saw Fary with her back up against a tree, but God’s truth, I couldn’t even see her face. Fary pulled me against her and I could tell that she was naked. Fary Thiam smelled like incense and the green waters of the river. Fary undressed me and I let her do it. Fary pulled me down to the ground and I lay on top of her. Before Fary, I had never known a woman, before me Fary had not known a man. Without knowing how to do it, I entered the interior of the middle of Fary’s body. God’s truth, the interior of Fary’s body was incredibly soft, warm, and wet. I stayed there a long time without moving, palpating in Fary’s interior. Then all of a sudden she started to roll her hips against me, first gently and then more quickly. If I hadn’t been inside Fary’s insides, I would certainly have laughed because we must have been funny to see, because I too started to shake my pelvis in all directions, and each of my thrusts was returned by a thrust from Fary Thiam’s pelvis. Fary thrust against me, moaning, and I returned her thrusts, moaning too. God’s truth, if it hadn’t been so good, if I’d taken the time to look at us wriggling against each other like that, I would have laughed a lot. But I couldn’t laugh, I could only moan with joy when I was inside Fary Thiam’s insides. After wriggling the middles of our bodies in all directions like that, what always happens happened that time too. I came inside Fary’s insides and I cried out as I came. It was loud and much more beautiful than it was with my hand. Fary Thiam also cried out at the end. Happily nobody heard us.

When Fary and I got up, we could barely stand. I couldn’t see her eyes in the dusk of the thicket of ebony trees.

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