Barry N. Malzberg by Jobs Partner

Author:Jobs Partner
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2011-12-27T03:41:30+00:00

“Yes!” It came out in a rush, a burst of sorrow, joy and relief. “Yes. Yes.

You’ll take the Baby when it’s born.”

She was suffused by Light as the Trio surrounded and submerged her, transmutative, embracing, complete. “We will come back then,” the Tall One proclaimed. They filed out in a solemn procession of dwindling light trickling behind them as tears.

Beings gone.

Home again. Al rushing about. “Can I get you some water? A sweater? Would you like to go out to dinner?” Al, brimful of flowers and solicitude.

“Are you sure you should go out? I can also do the shopping, you know.”

Al, like a puppy sniffing a forbidden room. “Do you still — you know —are those Things still — do you still think those Things you saw are real?”

“They’ve gone now,” she said flatly. And hid her face from Al’s capers of delight.

Labor.

A midnight ride through star-studded silence, ripped openly by the jagged shards of pain-streaked screams.

Heaving, contracting, hurting, heaving, pushing —

Al’s voice reaching across the red chasm. “A boy!”

A boy. “For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and in my flesh shall I see God.”

She clutched the baby to her chest, its matted wisps of hair washed by her tears.

“You want to name him what?”

Weak, willow-kneed, she struggled to sit.

“That’s not a Jewish name. You can’t get more Christian than that!”

“Okay.” Weakly she turned to face the wall. “Okay, then. Samuel.”

“At least that’s Jewish.” A pause, then Al timidly touched her arm. “Why Samuel?”

“Read the Bible,” she said and she slept.

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