Something in My Eye: Stories by Michael Jeffrey Lee

Author:Michael Jeffrey Lee [Lee, Michael Jeffrey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sarabande Books
Published: 2012-01-31T05:00:00+00:00

The father then wandered alone in the forest for many years, cold and impoverished, eating what he could of the berries that grew from the bushes and drinking turbid water from the little streams. On the day he was certain he would die, he spoke aloud a rambling and rather unrehearsed prayer, which the Good Lord did not hear, for He was busy feasting. The same angel, although he’d recently discarded his ledger because it had grown so overstuffed and inky, heard the prayer, and taking pity on the father in his frozen wanderings, he went straightaway to a local weaver, giving her specific instructions for the garment he had in mind. At twilight that very evening, the angel flew down to the father and wrapped him in the blanket the weaver had woven, which was embroidered in gold stitching with the words “the essence of human life.”

“Get thee to the city,” said the angel to the father. “Stand outside the outdoor store, and proclaim what you have seen.”

The father, however, was beyond admonishment, only gazing silently at the angel with unfocused and dimming eyes.

“Very well,” said the angel, who then stretched his glowing arms around the father, and lifting gently, carried him up into the night sky and beyond, into the crowded and somewhat dank bosom of the Good Lord, where the father was greeted coolly by his wife and two sons.

Expertly prepared fast meals were the featured item that night at the Great Feast, and the father consumed one after another, until he forgot that he had ever hungered at all, and then the angel took him gently by the arm and led him to his appointed room.

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