To the Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey

Author:Eowyn Ivey
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction / Historical, Fiction / Literary
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2016-08-02T04:00:00+00:00

61°36' N

143°45' W

Barometer: 29.18

54°F, exposed bulb

42°F, wet bulb

Dew point: 20

Relative humidity: 26

I am weary of these days of my own mind. Not the disemboweled, disembodied, charred stumps, not the blackened fields that stretch to the back of my brain. These are mere wounds to flesh and memory that I might endure. I speak to the shadows. Here, and here again, beneath my very skin. They will not leave me be.

I said kill the bawling newborn. What difference will it make? The Colonel would not meet my eyes. He feared the sight of my sick weakness but it is worse, Colonel, oh so much worse. I am worthless weak coward but more appalling I am only this: a true specimen of humanity.

Once my heart was full and trusting. I believed. A soldier’s shot always true. A soldier’s ways steady and forthright. I would wear that code like a mantle. At Elk Creek, I came to a hard truth: the mantle is threadbare, the wind passes through it.

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