The Sacrificial Circumcision of the Bronx by Arthur Nersesian

Author:Arthur Nersesian [Nersesian, Arthur]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook, book, General Fiction
ISBN: 9781615571512
Publisher: Unknown
Published: 2008-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

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Four months after their encounter across from Grand Central Station, Paul Moses finally broke down and asked for Lucretia’s hand in marriage. She wondered to herself how much longer it would take to get him to start producing children and money.

The first goal was easy. He initiated sex as soon as she woke up every morning and at night before bed—pregnancy was inevitable. Work, however, he rarely mentioned.

One Sunday after breakfast, as Paul flipped through the New York Times, Lucretia picked up a section of the paper he had tossed aside. It was the employment listings.

“You’re an engineer, right?”

“An electrical engineer,” he said, engrossed in an article about the new state of Israel.

“Let’s see … where is that?” She carefully surveyed the various job headings.

“I’ve spent the past twenty years trying to secure something,” he muttered absently. “Robert has built a blockade around me.”

“Robert, your brother?”

Paul had worked hard not to repeat the same mistake he had made with Teresa. He had been trying to avoid even mentioning Robert.

“How exactly has he blockaded you?”

“He kept me from getting a state position in Water, Gas, and Electricity, and I’m pretty sure he blocked me from getting a city commissionership as well.”

“Have you talked to him directly about this?”

“I tried,” Paul said, then put his newspaper down. He stole my inheritance right out from under me.”

Lucretia sat perplexed, wondering what to say or do. She knew that Paul no longer had access to the vast wealth that once made him master and her mother servant, but his chronic unemployment was going to complicate things considerably. Even Leon, who she thought of as little more than a glorified garbage collector, had a job.

Several days passed and Root was still missing. Although the miners slowly returned to their digs, Uli was reluctant to lead the zombielike laborers out of their caves. That had been Root’s job, and he feared mimicking her movements too closely. With their daily routines interrupted, the laborers were growing increasingly anxious. Uli tried looking after them, but feeding, watering, and cleaning that many was difficult, not to mention dangerous. The more energetic ones started walking aimlessly, and a few actually wandered back into the Mkultra.

After a week, a couple of the sickliest workers died. Then one morning Uli entered the silo to see a fresh chubby body dangling from the heights of the desk tower. It wasn’t until Uli found the large head, which had been cleanly circumcised and tossed in a corner, that he confirmed it was Manny. They had violently twisted his feet backwards—he was the latest offering to their bullshit death guide.

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