Strange Telescopes by Daniel Kalder

Author:Daniel Kalder [KALDER, DANIEL]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: TRV000000, TRV023000
ISBN: 9781468304671
Publisher: ABRAMS (Ignition)
Published: 2012-07-09T16:00:00+00:00

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After about four hours we came upon a big carved wooden sign announcing that we had reached Petropavlovka. Instantly I knew that we were somewhere totally different from all the other villages. An old woman walked up. The driver wound down his window. ‘Who are you looking for?’ She was exceedingly cheerful.

But I was suspicious. This woman, trapped deep in the great void, abandoned by her government, should have been full of anger, bitterness and suspicion. I know I would have been. But her eyes were bright and her smile was honest and open: it just wasn’t natural.

Semyon had been told to ask for Andrei and ‘the German House’.

‘You have come to the right place,’ she said, smiling. Then she leaned in through the window. ‘But what brings you to our little village?’ she asked, staring directly at me sitting in the back.

I didn’t answer. We drove on.

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