Concerning Those Who Have Fallen Asleep by Adam Soto

Author:Adam Soto
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Astra Publishing House

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MAGDALENA WAS AWOKEN by her phone. Not the watery sound of her text message notification but the alarm of an emergency alert. Flagstaff was evacuating. She stirred Tony awake. It was early morning.

“What should we do?” she said.

He sat on the edge of the bed, rubbing his face. He turned on the TV. It was all right there, all of it on fire.

“I have to go the hospital,” he said.

“Tony, what we do, we do together,” Magdalena said. “If you want to go to the hospital, I’m going with you. But it says we have to move now.”

The map of Flagstaff on TV was waving with animated flames, the hospital in the red evacuation area.

“Tony, they usually have plans for these types of things.”

“What if something happens to her?”

“Tony, I have to tell you something,” Magdalena said.

Everything was so bright and fresh, like citrus, this early in the day.

“What?”

“It’s something I should’ve already told you.”

“What?”

“I love you very, very much. And I’ve always been proud of you. You’ve always made me so proud.”

He smiled tearfully, having heard it all a thousand times before and having heard this time as well.

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