Dogs and Others by Biljana Jovanović

Author:Biljana Jovanović [Jovanović, Biljana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General Fiction
Publisher: Istros Books
Published: 2018-12-04T15:14:39+00:00

A Story from Childhood

It was in the coastal town of Umag, where we were spending our summer vacation for the second time – precisely there, and because of that – and Danilo and I were still little; Marina was laughing and sunbathing with this dark-haired guy. Uncle K was hanging around. In the evening the three of them, Uncle K, Marina, and the swarthy guy from the beach, left us to sleep; they headed out to a nearby tavern. After Danilo and I determined that there was no danger of their swift return, we stole out of the house; Danilo put on his bathing trunks and a thick sweater; I had on pyjama bottoms and a t-shirt; we went down to the beach – it was a few hundred meters away; other than that I just had a rubber band on my head; my hair was tangled and damp – tied up in a rubber band (after the day’s swimming) – Marina didn’t even like (she simply hated to have to mess with my hair, in the evenings) to touch my head, my hair – and therefore I always went to bed with my hair uncombed. When we got down there, to the beach, I told Danilo – whom I had carried on my back from the halfway point (he was complaining that his legs ached an awful lot) – how nice it would be if we could also take a swim – and I added that that’s why we had come out of the house in the dark. I assured him that there was absolutely no reason to be afraid, since I had in my mouth an unusually long piece of twine – which we would use to tie ourselves to one of the boats so that we wouldn’t be lost to the waters, or to the darkness. Danilo was still on my back; I set him down, on the sand, and he started crying that very instant – he was always crying – both when he should be crying and when he shouldn’t; I sat down beside him and begin withdrawing the twine from my mouth; it was astonishingly long – I pulled it out length by length or (at those places where it was tied) knot by knot, and it seemed like it had dropped deep down my throat – I wasn’t anywhere near getting to the end of it out; and when I got sick, I vomited up the final little knot and all my food, a heap of food – which had been stewing in my stomach for days; Danilo never let up crying; damn brat, it’s amazing how strong he is! I got into the water a moment later, ignoring Danilo (he was shrieking by now, and it sounded like animals from out of the darkness were ripping him into shreds of varying sizes) and without the twine. I swam around a little bit and then quickly came back out; Danilo only grudgingly agreed to give me the sweater – only when I promised to carry him all the way back.

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