Beyond the Station Lies the Sea by Jutta Richter

Author:Jutta Richter
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: 2011-12-21T16:00:00+00:00

THERE’S NO WAY I’M ever going to make it to the sea, thinks Cosmos.

The pigeons cooing in the attic have him up far too early. He sits on the torn mattress and counts the angel money over and over.

Niner is still sleeping soundly.

A whole thousand! Unbelievable! That’s enough for a hundred seas. Enough to feed all the hungry gulls besides. And for a stand on the beach:COSMOS’S COLD DRINKS:

EXTRA FRESH AND EXTRA COLD!

Niner moans softly in his sleep.

But with this one here, I won’t even make it as far as the train station, thinks Cosmos. Niner is a ball and chain. A tightrope walker. Pure bad luck. I’ll be doing nothing but saving him all the time. For ever and ever. And if it weren’t for me . . . he never would’ve got so much money anyway. It was my idea, after all. Actually, it’s my money, too. Didn’t I drive a hard bargain and earn it fair and square?

Niner is still sleeping.

Then Cosmos gets up. His foot still hurts. He shoves the bundle of cash under his shirt.

As the pigeons coo loudly, he slips quietly out of the room, walks carefully down the ramshackle stairs, holding his breath and pausing when one of the steps creaks, until finally he stands outside in the early sunshine, under a clear blue sky.

And then Cosmos runs.

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