Cor Rotto: A novel of Catherine Carey by Dillard Adrienne

Author:Dillard, Adrienne [Dillard, Adrienne]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: MadeGlobal Publishing
Published: 2014-11-03T16:00:00+00:00

I found myself in the middle of a town square. The smoke from the fires was so thick I could barely see through it. Keeping my head down and my eyes on the ground, I felt around through the fog of smoke. The smell of roasting flesh filled the air and my ears rang with the screams of the damned. I yanked my hand back when I felt the heat of the flames. The smoke began to clear and as I looked up, I could see the woman tied to the stake, enveloped in fire. My watering eyes blurred my vision, but I could make out her distended stomach, swollen with child. She gave a great scream and a rush of blood splattered on the ground. It was then that I realised, the baby had been born. It was hanging by its cord between the woman’s legs.

I lunged at the fire grasping for the child. The intense heat scorched my skin. A cluster of blisters appeared on the back of my hands, but I reached in further until I had the child. I pulled back, yanking until the cord was free. Before I could tend to the wailing baby, it was snatched from my hand by a dark figure and tossed back into the flames.

A voice boomed beside me, “This child shall share in its mother’s sin!”

I looked up into the mother’s face and my heart stopped when I saw my daughter, Mary, looking back at me. An unearthly scream erupted from the depths of my soul and my world went black.

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