Dancing With the Golden Bear by Win Blevins

Author:Win Blevins [Blevins, Win]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781504033107
Goodreads: 29335265
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2005-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Sam sat next to Flat Dog in the pleasant courtyard, Coy curled between them. Walkways lined the four sides, hedges kept the world out, and a fountain spouted serenely in the center. Its water soared into the air, captured faint afternoon sunlight, and dropped it back to the pool below.

For Sam nothing moved. The water was frozen as a mud puddle in winter. The air was fixed, stagnating, rotting. The sunlight didn’t slide upward on the northern wall. The shadows in the courtyard were graves.

Time was held in a death grip, by his fierce command. Nothing happened. The world stopped, except for the motions of one woman, either a healer or a killer. One woman bent over the sleeping or dying figure of his wife, wielding a knife.

Sam’s imagination tortured him. He had cut human flesh, and seen it part, seen it bleed. He knew the thousand little wellsprings of blood that were violated, each leaking Meadowlark herself onto the blade, onto the hands of the surgeon, and onto the dead boards of the floor. He knew too much, and too little.

Sometimes he tried to picture exactly what was happening. The tip of the knife slicing from the navel down. The thin line of blood. The second, firmer cut, through all the layers of skin to …

To what? His imagination swam in blood, blinded. Something within Meadowlark, some flesh that cradled a child, as every human child was held for a time, some …

Hands delving deep into Meadowlark’s belly, into Sam’s soul. Hands urgent and bloody that would hold up …

He could take no pleasure in the thought of the child. What he had desired for months now felt alien. What his heart longed for, his hands yearned to hold, his eye hoped to feast on, all was turned to … Blood. Black blood. Death.

He fixed his mind on those hands, rising scarlet from the darkness, and raising up life or death.

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