The Girl Who Wouldn?t Die by Randall Platt

Author:Randall Platt
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sky Pony Press
Published: 2017-04-20T04:00:00+00:00

V.

“What happened?” I demand, crashing into Mrs. Praska’s apartment. “Lorenz said Stefan’s hand was blown off!” I go to the bed, where Mrs. Praska is finishing bandaging his hand.

“Just the tips of his fingers,” she says. “Thank God for the morphine.” She closes her sewing kit.

Lizard holds up a tackle box. “And fishing line.”

“Is he dead?” Lorenz asks, his face ashen, his eyes wide and tear-filled.

“No, no. Just asleep. He’ll be fine,” Mrs. Praska says, giving Lorenz a warm hug.

“Tell me how this happened, Lorenz.”

“We were … well, sort of begging. Sorry, Arab, I know you don’t like us to beg.”

“Just tell me what happened!”

“Anyway, a lady was going to give him something and … and … then there were all these soldiers on horseback. One told Stefan he had something for him and to hold out his hand and boom! His fingers were on the street! There was blood everywhere and then Lizard found us and …”

“I packed his hand with snow and got him here as fast as I could,” Lizard said. “God, can that boy scream! Hope he hasn’t ruined his singing voice. Anything to drink around here, Mrs. Praska? I could use a shot of something.”

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