Back to Delphi by Ioanna Karystiani

Author:Ioanna Karystiani
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Family Life, Fiction, Greece, Interpersonal Relations, Mothers and Sons, Psychological
Publisher: Europa Editions
Published: 2013-11-15T00:00:00+00:00

The Shoelace

T he victim, eighteen, had finished her shift at the ice cream parlor where she worked at shortly after midnight and had gone out with a girlfriend for a drink. She was found in a clump of trees off a main thoroughfare at five-thirty in the morning by three Albanians, a father and two sons, on their way to their daily wage. Round her neck a black shoelace was tightly wrapped. On the ground, next to her, were a small purse with her wallet in it, intact, and two red bags stamped with the name of her workplace, Alaska, in the one, packed ice cream cones in the other, two dirty aprons and a book with recipes for sweets. The police had sent out search parties to hunt down the dangerous murderer-rapist.

That’s what they said on the TV before the sports news and Viv Koleva chalked the event up to merciless July with its mean heat waves, the infuriating stolidity of public servants, the shop’s drop in business and her brother-in-law’s outright refusal to discuss the possibility of Linus’s going over there on a trial basis, to change his surroundings and look for a more attractive course of studies, she’d pay for all expenses, naturally.

- First, get him to settle down and finish his school, then let the army iron the rest of the kinks out of him, and then we might look at a visit to Toronto, Canada isn’t going anywhere. - But orphans don’t get drafted.

Sir would not budge. He stated that it was the worst possible moment for him to take on a guest for two months, or even

for one. At home, the two babies were continually hollering, and so was her sister. Viv hadn’t prepared the ground by first talking Xenia into it, her brother-in-law brooked no wheeling and dealing behind his back, he had a habit of turning rabid.

She wasn’t even going to tell her sister about the phone call, Alifraggis’s tone and his nerves about his wife’s nerves disallowed her to make worse an already tense situation. The guy was a cannibal and a clown, Viv had a stack of evidence that her younger sister hadn’t fared well.

- Vivika, at first he swept me off my feet with his lovemaking, battle ready morning and night, not like the one before who was forever blaming the political situation, was driven to anxiety attacks by the illnesses of his beloved prime minister, was wrecked by the backstabbing within the Socialist Party.

Later on, the things Xenia divulged about her husband’s sexual practices took a dramatic turn, he bounded on the bed, he stood up rotating like a helicopter that’s lost its propeller, about to crash to the ground and go up in flames, or he fell on her like a tractor and excavated her insides till she was turned inside out while, after her second birth with the known outcome, he crashed into the house like a truck with faulty brakes and fell in a swoon on the bed as if in a ditch.

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