Messenger from Mystery by Deno Trakas

Author:Deno Trakas
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: 2017-07-27T16:00:00+00:00

When I hung up I thought about going back to bed, but I was too angry and anxious for sleep. And famished—I hadn’t eaten anything except a few bites of airplane food in two days. And, shit, I remembered I had to teach my first class of the fall tomorrow, and I hadn’t prepared at all, hadn’t given it a thought. I buttered four pieces of stale bread, put them on a baking sheet in the oven, and went outside to gather the newspapers that had littered the driveway in my absence. I made some coffee, ate my toast, and read that day’s paper. The Gamecock football team was expecting a good season—that was the front page news. Secondarily, Carter battled Reagan over ozone and climate change, over whether, as Reagan claimed, pollution is caused by trees. No mention at all of the hostages, one of whom, the most vulnerable, was Azi.

Sunday morning, like wide water without sound. How do you pray if God has betrayed you?

I went to school and prepared for my classes, made syllabi, laid out a schedule for the fall as if writing dates and assignments might bring order back to my world.

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