The Peregrine: The Hill of Summer & Diaries: The Complete Works of J. A. Baker by J. A. Baker

Author:J. A. Baker [Baker, J. A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2011-06-09T06:00:00+00:00

JUNE: MIDSUMMER

The heavy sun pressed down; heat smote upward from the water-shimmering road. The hot sun numbed the mind; cool rushes of green shade revived. A warm breeze stifled in the solid trees. All sound was dry. A fume of summer coiled upon the fields.

Blind cars had made their kill. Many birds lay shattered in the road: blackbirds, thrushes, and starlings, were pulped and flattened in the sanded tar. A rat, a mole, and a rabbit, had been reduced to rusty stain. Traffic made the insects rise. Swifts came down to feed, cutting between cars, bouncing in the hot metallic glare. Low down in front of wheels the thin dark shapes cut through. Fifty miles an hour was simple to them; merely the speed they started from. Like black-ripping many-bladed knives, they flung ahead, crisping across windscreens, blurring into light, unseen, untouched, gathering their prey. The insects that were left were smashed to green haze upon the heated glass.

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