Stranger From Across the Sea by Regina McBride

Author:Regina McBride
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Green City Books
Published: 2024-05-16T17:41:49+00:00

Without him here, I knew I’d have a painful time getting oriented. I was not quite sure what to do with myself. Now and then I stood and looked into another area of the house, watching the doorways to different rooms, some irrational part of me expecting to see Indira materialize.

I took the bicycle out onto the sea road until I reached the old woman’s caravan. As I made my way down the slope, she stood up from a small wicker chair where she’d been sitting, wrapped in a gray shawl and smoking a pipe. She watched me, the damp ice-blue of her eyes a shock in the sunlight.

I told her why I’d come back, gave her twenty-five pence, and she reached into the depths of the caravan, drawing out a pack of very worn cards, larger than a regular deck.

She told me to think about whatever question I had.

I asked, in silence, if Emmett and I would stay together. I shuffled and drew a card.

The picture on it was of a dove with its wings spread, suspended over a rose. The card was very creased. Clouds were depicted in the background behind the dove and a stream of light came from some mysterious source above.

“What does it mean?”

“You lost your love,” she said, her focus on the card.

I thought of saying that she was wrong, but kept silent. And then I worried that she meant that something had happened to Emmett.

“When?” I asked.

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