High as the Waters Rise by Anja Kampmann

Author:Anja Kampmann
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781948226523
Publisher: Catapult
Published: 2020-06-26T00:00:00+00:00

Waclaw let himself be dropped off in a town that seemed to consist only of a few houses. He passed a sad campanile and came to a square. He sat there awhile. From the edge, he could look down at a valley, with a city of red brick, he could hear motors, and a stoplight shone in the distance. Ti amo sempre scratched into the rust of the railing. When the sun was already higher in the sky, a few boys came to the square, walked to a little water fountain, filled their mouths with water, and tried to squirt it at one another. Then they walked away, snorting.

A while later the long line stood in the same place, washing himself. He went to a small shop. Bread, dry sausage, coffee, a small pot, sugar.

A dog was tied up in front of the store, and it whimpered when it saw him. The dog was old, a white shadow in one eye. He stood there awhile and looked at it. The light fur. The feeling that no one was coming.

That evening he watched the coffee slowly come to a boil in the little pot. He’d walked far out, and between the hills and a few gnarled trees he’d found a tree trunk with a patch of softer sand in front of it. He looked for wood in the bushes, he looked for wood for the night. The coffee was very sweet and strong. Bats hunted among the trees in the twilight.

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