Red Audrey and the Roping by Jill Malone

Author:Jill Malone [Malone, Jill]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Lesbian, Literary, Psychological
ISBN: 9781612940021
Google: yk9UzFE9bCAC
Amazon: B006IVGVK8
Publisher: Bywater Books
Published: 2008-05-01T18:33:20+00:00

XX.

Light glared through the pale greenhouse of my classroom, sifting among us as though it were hunting, or scavenging for roots. My class rattled off their third declension nouns as I listened to the symmetry of repetition and chorus: two dozen twenty-year-olds chanting a language that hung in the room like perfume.

Language so clear, so defined that during recitation only the verbs were out of context, the present imperfect. Kyle fumbled with his translation of Ovid, surfer bangs riffled with a nervous gesture of his hand. During a debate about the meaning of Achilles’ fate, a British Lit major, Annabelle, who’d scored perfectly on each exam and homework assignment, drummed a pencil against her lips and stared out the window onto the common. Here we could talk like the dead: epulatus eram, epulatus eras, epulatus erat, epulati eramus, epulati eratis, epulati errant. Here we spoke of love potions and sons of centaurs with deliberate formality. Here treachery translated to proditus, a harmless enough word in Latin. Emily had said I frightened her, the way nothing moved me.

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