Sea Monsters by Chloe Aridjis

Author:Chloe Aridjis
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781948226042
Publisher: Catapult
Published: 2018-11-14T16:00:00+00:00

It was deep night when we arrived in Zipolite. One by one we stepped off and dispersed. I held on to Tomás’s arm as the sand gave way beneath our feet, the warm salty air exuding its welcome as the ocean roared territorially nearby, and we walked in a direction that could have been left or right or straight ahead. The dim form of a woman appeared and from this form emerged a voice that offered an open-air palapa for ten pesos a night or a bungalow with walls for twenty. She switched on her flashlight to illustrate the first option: a thatched structure held aloft by four poles, containing two hammocks side by side. We’ll take it, we said in unison. Exhausted from our travels despite having slept on the bus, we remained in our clothes and deposited our shoes on the sand below. By the time the overhead lamp reached the end of its wick Tomás had drifted off and soon I too was able to hand myself over to sleep, despite a loud whirring of wings followed by an abrupt silence, as if a large insect had come to land on the cords of my hammock.

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