Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras

Author:Ingrid Rojas Contreras
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2018-07-30T16:00:00+00:00

Petrona

You know how to wash properly, little girl?

With soap and water, right?

Those were the things la Pulga, Uña, and Alacrán said to little Aurora when they thought I had played them. They wanted me to see that they could talk to my little Aurora this way, with their rifles nearly grazing her face.

I didn’t look at them. I stared at my hands. They had seemed so civil at the Santiagos’; but I had misjudged. I pulled the husks off the corn. I listened to the tearing leaves. Something happens when you’re scared. Your mind goes off and your body doesn’t follow. It happened just this way to me. Suddenly I was not sitting there, powerless, in our hut.

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