The Tale of Little Bevan by Robert Alan Evans

Author:Robert Alan Evans [Robert Alan Evans]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780571360871
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2019-12-17T16:00:00+00:00

Pat Gill. Gill.

You’ll never guess what –

Oh, I’ve forgotten.

And it seemed so …

She laughs a bit wildly.

Oh Gill. Am I okay?

Gill You’re fine, Pat.

Pat Do you have any more of that …

Gill Harvest wine?

Of course. Here you go.

They dance. Getting wilder.

Andy Gill!

Gill Andy.

Andy I love your …

Well, what are they?

Gill These? These are ears of corn.

Traditionally they were worn –

Oh, but I wouldn’t want to bore you.

Josie Gill! You could never bore us.

Josie trying her sincere face.

And so, not without a certain grace, Gill takes to her makeshift stage.

And explains what she’s wearing. Revenge she’d been preparing for six weeks.

Gill You see, I am the Horkey Lord. It’s a tradition going way back. On Harvest Moon one person in the village would be decorated with the fruits of that year’s harvest. Until night fell and well, the village had to swallow it down. Eat what they’d grown. Reap what they’d sown.

Only there mustn’t be any rot in the harvest. One rotten apple can spoil the lot.

And it was the Horkey Lord’s job to root out anything rotten in the community too.

To sing the life of the village that year.

Its lives. Its secrets. Its lies.

So there was nothing left to fester.

The village spellbound now.

Gill filled with some kind of power.

But also … this unease. Was it the trees, creaking in the sudden still? It felt like they were being watched.

Spirits old unlocked.

A cloud across the moon. And so began the strangest tune.

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