Her Kind, a novel by Robin Throne

Author:Robin Throne [Throne, Robin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Literary Fiction
Publisher: 918studio
Published: 2013-03-14T00:00:00+00:00

December 26, 1862, Mankato, Minnesota

It was like that for Uncle Asaph.

The river had tempered his soldier’s heart. Like the finest fishing line, stronger than its weight in borders.

Kept him in.

Kept him taut.

America’s greatest public execution, I read somewhere later.

Duty.

Honor.

It was all good and right and just.

It is not God who determines a man’s heaven or hell, Grandpa Syl had explained to me once as he scoffed at Asaph’s desire to build an island city. Man’s, he had said.

It was in one of those solitary moments, somewhere around that same time that Grandpa Syl had died, that I sat on a roughhewn closet floor and cried over a painting, not only for these 38 hooded souls, but also for Asaph and his regiment.

A young blue soldier.

Exterminator.

It would be the 76 dangling legs at 5 after 10 that invaded my mind for years after.

Mrs. Arthur once told the whole class that my uncle had been a war hero. She had beamed at me so directly as if silently commanding me to beam back with a similar aura. My face and mind only responded with a deadness more typical of Emma than me.

We line the river bank, and Jesus washes us clean.

Zenas had proclaimed this when he saw the great river for the first time.

God forbid that it be so simple.

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