Some New Ambush by Carys Davies

Author:Carys Davies
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Salt Publishing Limited
Published: 2022-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

The Owens have left our town. I saw them climb on the bus at the stop between the Blue Lady and the chapel. I could see Thomas’s fair head, like a bright coin against the grey stone of the buildings. I watched the bus through the window until it disappeared.

Mr. Davies is gone now, too. I miss cooking for him. To pass the time, I come down to the beach at Ogmore and sit here in the prickly dune grass, looking out across the empty sand, the puckered water. I have been trying, these last few days, to dig a hole, but it’s hard work, digging a hole in a sand dune, because the sand keeps running endlessly back through your empty fingers like dry salt. Sometimes, the local boys come up to the beach. When they pass close the dunes, their high voices distract me briefly from my digging. Then they go running off up the beach and leave me to it again, calling to each other, and glancing back over their shoulder at the funny looking woman on the dune – the sad lady from the valleys, digging for babies in the sand.

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