Bay of Fires A Novel by Poppy Gee

Author:Poppy Gee
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Fiction
ISBN: 9780316201674
Publisher: Reagan Arthur Books
Published: 2013-03-12T07:00:00+00:00

By torchlight she knotted the line and attached bait. She cast out, then switched the torch off. No one needed to know exactly where she was standing. Her finger tingled and she realized she had cut herself. She pressed the wound to her mouth and sucked. Blood’s warm saltiness triggered memories that made her shudder: Jake standing over her and spitting on the ground; the peppery smell of wet asphalt; the taste of beer and blood and his foul-smelling, slobbering breath; his lazy drawl hurling cruel insults as he stomped away into the night.

She searched her mind for the happier memories, but they were slow to surface. Humid evenings eating dinner on the back veranda while November thunderstorms shook the roof. Drinking cups of tea while strolling through the bamboo and palms in her overgrown garden. In that house they had talked about everything they hadn’t talked about during the day. At work they didn’t speak; at home he wanted to know everything: who was calling her, where she went to buy groceries after work, what she thought of the other guys on the fish farm. She was flattered by his close attention; the intensity of his feelings was something she was not used to. He was insistent, that’s what he was. Like the vines pushing through the cracks in her floorboards and gaps in the window frames; you could snap them off, but they’d be back in a few days.

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