I Could Read the Sky by Timothy O'Grady

Author:Timothy O'Grady
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781448112463
Publisher: Random House

When I think of Derbyshire I think of the blue fog in the mornings and the miners walking through it. Why they seemed so lonely I don’t know for they were often laughing. They were taking gouges out of the hills the way you’d take off the top of an egg with a knife. We were putting up screens for the washeries. Black Johnny Fortune was on that job. A tall mournful local man they called Drizzle. The Horse McGurk who played the banjo. And Francie Meehan. He called himself Gallagher after a Donegal hurler and I called myself Rose after one of the men made the flute that was buried with Da. In the digs we were put sleeping in the same bed. He was very long and he always lay on his back and when I woke in the morning the first thing I’d see were his white feet pointing at the ceiling. Sometimes they’d twitch like a fly had landed on them. “Oh those feet,” I said to him once. He looked at me like the two of us were out on a mountainside in the rain. “I know,” he said. “There’s nothing worse than another man’s body.”

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