Nest in the Bones: Stories by Antonio Benedetto by Antonio Di Benedetto

Author:Antonio Di Benedetto [Di Benedetto, Antonio]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9780914671725
Publisher: Steerforth Press
Published: 2017-05-23T04:00:00+00:00

And so Aballay’s spring ended, and his summer passed.

The winter made him think summer had been a heaven for him and his life in the open.

Past the fields, the sun was rising, but Aballay couldn’t manage to wake up. It was freezing, and he was freezing. He was gripped by vague sensations of living in a state of wonder now grown brittle. He didn’t bother to move, and a benign drowsiness overtook him.

His lethargy lasted a long time, the proximity to a gentle death, but his blood responded to the first hints of clement air.

When he became aware of the risk he had waded through, he made the sign of the cross, kissed his wooden icon, and looked down at his bearers, wondering:

If I died on horseback…who would take me down? Could death accomplish it…?

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