I Know Where She Is by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781911591795
Publisher: Canelo Books
Published: 2018-11-22T00:00:00+00:00

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The trolley was loaded with meals consisting of tinned mackerel, a hunk of bread, an ice-cream scoopful of salty mashed potato, and a freckled banana for dessert. There was a tower of plastic cups, to be filled with tap water from the dented metal jug. It was the same supper every day for the girls in the cells; boring, yes, but a damn sight more nutritious than the crackers and runner beans they used to get. With all the girls that fell sick while they were pregnant, someone suggested that maybe the issue arose from them not getting enough vitamins. Some of them got scurvy; their gums would bleed raw, and the sharp edges of the crackers would scratch them even worse until they had to spit blood after every bite of food.

Autumn opened the wicket and slid the tray of food through the black rectangle until the pale, needy hands came out to receive it. You don’t know how lucky you are, she thought, remembering the taste of blood in her own mouth, the sores that would erupt on her skin.

She came to Janet’s cell, pulled the wicket down and peeked through the rectangle. ‘How’s the belly?’ she whispered.

Janet stepped forward rubbing her stomach. ‘Getting big. My back hurts.’

‘It’s a boy,’ Autumn said, pouring her a cup of water and sliding the tray in.

‘You think so?’

‘Most definitely.’ She gave Janet an understanding smile.

‘How can you tell?’

Autumn shrugged. ‘Just can.’

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