The Sisters K by Maureen Sun

Author:Maureen Sun [Sun, Maureen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Part 4

CORDELIA: You look terrible.

REGAN: I feel terrible.

CORDELIA: Why?

REGAN: Bad dreams.

CORDELIA: About what?

REGAN: About a filthy-faced woman who said that there’d been a rape. “A rape?” I asked. “When?” And she said, “A few minutes ago. Run!” And just as she said the word “run” another woman wearing a brown wig grabbed me and held me fast with weak fingers. She spoke of the things she would do to me, meditating on the pleasures. As she spoke, her wig would shift and I could see her real hair underneath, which was short and gray and caked with dandruff. She mentioned that there was a dump out back. “It would be a good place to serve you,” she said. I knew my body would feel every imaginable horror. I stabbed a sharpened pencil into her hand, and there it stuck. She noticed it not. I said, “I stabbed a pencil into your hand,” and she said, “You did, did you? Well, I haven’t slept in three days and can’t feel a thing.” I screamed and struggled, and then woke up. I felt the relief that comes from finding your body safe in bed. And then I remembered that he is in the storm. It is happening to him. He is my father. It is happening to him and it will happen to me. Nothing can stop it.

—Young Jean Lee, Lear

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