Mourning by Eduardo Halfon

Author:Eduardo Halfon
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781942658450
Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press
Published: 2018-03-21T00:00:00+00:00

WHEN WE WERE KIDS, we believed Don Isidoro when he told us that what he was drinking from a small metal canteen—which smelled like pure alcohol—was his medicine. And we believed him when he told us that the rumblings of hunger our tummies made were the hisses of an enormous black snake slithering around in there, and that it went in and out through our belly buttons while we slept. And we believed him when he told us that the ever more frequent gunfire and bomb blasts in the mountains were only eruptions of the Pacaya volcano. And we believed him when he told us that the two bodies that turned up one morning floating by the dock were not two murdered guerillas tossed into the lake, but two normal boys, two boys scuba diving. And we believed him when he told us that, if we didn’t behave, at night a sorceress would come for us, a sorceress who lived in a cave at the bottom of the lake (my brother—I don’t know if by mistake or as a joke—called her the Shore-ceress of the Lake), a dark cave where she waited for all the spoiled little white boys and girls she stole from the lake houses.

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