The Man I Became by Peter Verhelst

Author:Peter Verhelst
Language: eng
Format: mobi, azw3, epub
ISBN: 9781908670274
Publisher: Peirene Press
Published: 2015-08-15T04:30:00+00:00

Several days later I found photos in the bushes of mutilated animals in a shipping container. I cut the photos up into little pieces and burned them in an ashtray. That was the only time I used the ashtray. I added one snippet to my talisman: the close-up of a lion.

After the last show I got a call. Under the Dome there was a complicated system of passages that led between the stage and the cages and allowed the animals to be driven to and fro but be kept apart. It was an effective system as long as everyone stuck to the protocol. The lion had flaunted protocol for a few seconds, long enough to corner a leopard and its keeper in a passage and then slip into a room with the leopard. The keeper was ashen. Blood was spurting from his shoulder. He pulled me towards him with his good arm. ‘Ikroti elikhulu,’ he whispered. Great warrior. His body began to shake. Then it stopped and he stared with big eyes at something we, the living, could not yet see.

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