Friendswood by Rene Steinke

Author:Rene Steinke
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Penguin Group US
Published: 2014-08-03T16:00:00+00:00

AT HOME, she knelt on the floor, rested her hands on the bed, the tiny flowers on the quilt, the careful highways of stitching, the crumpled mountain of pillow. Her chest tensed up in the silence. She stared at her clenched hands in the lamplight, the faint hairs on her fingers, the wrinkles of her knuckles. She had the feeling that someone was about to break into the house, shatter the glass of the windows with a hammer. Her heart was about to stop. There was a tumor in her that would soon explode. She listened for roaring winds, for the gallop of horseshoes on concrete streets, for monstrous locusts, or a rubbery kind of stretching silence. In the dark outside, beyond her window, she sensed a swirling preparation, a kind of angelic weather.

A minute later, the room seemed very far away. She was looking in at herself through the window, at a girl sitting on the floor in her nightgown, who seemed to have always been there, body glued to the beige carpet. She was a silhouette of a girl praying, like the one she’d seen in an old-fashioned book, candle lit on the table next to where she knelt. She didn’t know what to pray. She sent up a wordless thing that was like a blinking light, or the true flicker of that candle in the picture.

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