Last Fling by Sue Gee

Author:Sue Gee
Language: eng, eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Salt Publishing Limited
Published: 2014-07-30T09:55:27+00:00

It was three o’clock. Her father was in the study. Out here in the garden, through the open window, she could hear him: turning papers, opening drawers in his desk. She was weeding, and raking the first fall of leaves. She put everything into the barrow and wheeled it down to the corner where they’d always had their bonfires. She tipped it all up, felt the weight of it all, and wondered for a moment if she should be doing these things, just now, if perhaps she should be careful. Then she thought: I am strong, and my mother is watching over me, just as she had said to herself all her life.

And she stood at the bottom of the garden, and felt the first wind of autumn blow over everything: the house, her mother’s grave in the churchyard, the garden and the field beyond, where the cattle were; as she had done all her life. She lit the bonfire.

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