Of Echoes Born by Nathan Burgoine

Author:Nathan Burgoine [Burgoine, ’Nathan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781635550979
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books
Published: 2018-05-20T16:00:00+00:00

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“Where are his clothes?”

“Who knows.”

The second voice is my brother’s, but the first is harder to place. I want to keep my eyes on the statue and the snow. I want to press against it and feel my skin touch the cold stone because then the carver woman is there, and she’s louder than everything else. One voice instead of dozens. It’s so much better, even if I’m shivering, and my toes are starting to hurt.

“C’mon, Fluke,” my brother says, and his hand is on my shoulder. He’s not gentle with me, and for a second I think about shaking him off; I’m already losing the voice of the woman who carved the statue, but his grip is too tight, and he pulls me back and down from the stone pedestal.

I lose the carver, and the rest of the world rises up in its usual chorus. I press my hands against my ears, but it doesn’t help. The voices aren’t from outside.

My brother gives me a shake. I try really hard, and make my hands move away from my ears. I listen as hard as I can to what he’s saying, and I try to ignore everything else.

“Where’s your pants? Your coat?”

I shake my head.

Alex sighs.

“Dude, he’s gotta be freezing.” I look at the other guy with Alex, and I can almost recognize him. He’s got red hair, and he’s taller and bigger than even my brother.

“I know,” Alex says. “He has to go in the back seat. He tries to grab the wheel sometimes.”

“I’ll sit with him.”

“Thanks.”

My brother’s hand is tight on my arm again. As he leads me to the back of his car, I try to say goodbye to the stone carver, but my brother tells me to be quiet and that I’m coming with him.

They never understand who I’m talking to.

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