Seasons of the Moon by Julien Aranda

Author:Julien Aranda [Aranda, Julien]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781542047777
Publisher: Amazon Crossing
Published: 2017-09-26T04:00:00+00:00

A week passed quickly. I tirelessly scrubbed the bridge, rubbing hard to remove the salt deposited by squalls. It was not an easy job, as I quickly realized. But I held fast to my dream like a lioness holds fast to her cubs. At night, while most of the ship’s company slept, and when the sea was behaving itself enough to let me go outside, I would stretch out on the deck and stare up at the sky with its infinite blanket of stars. I was happy lying there like that, as I had been in the garden as a child. The moon shone in the sky, illuminating the ocean with its soft light, changing over the days as its position shifted, from smiling crescent to tranquil quarter to full and melancholic, but always with the same intensity of gaze, the same ardor, the same perpetual exuberance. Watching this celestial extravagance, I secretly prayed that nothing would wither: my love for Mathilde, for Mama, for my whole family. I prayed for life to be simply an ocean of tenderness, a calm lake on which my craft would cruise freely. When I reached my peak of relaxation, there on the ship’s deck that was my planetarium, it appeared in all its splendor. I saw it. Yes, I saw it. The smile of the moon . . .

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