The Coal Tattoo by Silas House

Author:Silas House [House, Silas]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, General
ISBN: 9780345480057
Google: YZAP0eDHqzIC
Amazon: 0345480058
Barnesnoble: 0345480058
Goodreads: 26653
Publisher: Thorndike Press
Published: 2004-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

SHE HAD NOT felt as if she could completely break down until Anneth came. Now a great release moved up out of Easter’s heart. She could feel it rising, bursting forth, when Anneth leaned down and wrapped her arms around Easter’s shoulders. Anneth held Easter as tightly as she could. They cried with a grief that Easter reckoned could be felt all throughout the hospital.

She knew that their mourning was growing and growing until it became an actual, physical thing. It rose from them and moved out the window, a great wind that whistled through the trees down the mountain until it reached the town. There this wind of grief kicked newspapers along the sidewalks and blew the hats from the heads of a group of men leaving the Depot Café. It blew up the skirts of women on their way into the dress shop, caused trees to bend, set waves to peaking on the river. People felt it come out of nowhere, turned to watch it pass. The trees showed the white sides of their leaves to its approach, and as it moved across the hills the wind tore damp clothes from lines where they had been hung to dry. Tomato plants broke in two and tufts of leaf lettuce were lost. Their collected grief moved up the dirt road and took shingles from their own little house on Free Creek.

Anneth stretched out on the bed there with Easter, one arm behind Easter’s neck and the other thrown across her waist. Before long, darkness overtook the world outside the long windows, and gray shadows moved about the room. By that time they had both fallen asleep, exhausted by their heartbreak.

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