Sleepless Night by Margriet de Moor

Author:Margriet de Moor
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781939931719
Publisher: New Vessel Press
Published: 2019-05-06T16:00:00+00:00

That was that.

“Light me a cigarette, would you?” I said.

There was more, of course, but that was another chapter.

Trees suspended in ice rolled by on either side. They looked like some exotic species. The branches hung unnaturally low, some of the treetops were crooked, not dangerously so, but still: a slight distortion and the familiar becomes strange enough to inspire fear or awe.

I stopped at a parking lot dotted with trash cans and signs bearing directions for walking trails. Before we got out of the car, he slotted a cigarette between my lips. The insides of his fingers felt rough.

I may be mistaken—it’s late, the middle of the night, and I am standing over a Bundt pan smoothing out cake batter—but I seem to remember him looking intently at my face. Perhaps he was toying with the idea of asking “And then?”

Had he asked, I would have answered, “And then began my search, my descent into madness.”

But he didn’t ask anything.

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