The Olive Season by Carol Drinkwater

Author:Carol Drinkwater [DRINKWATER, CAROL]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: BIO000000; BIO026000; TRV000000; TRV009000; TRV009050
ISBN: 9781468308716
Publisher: The Overlook Press
Published: 2013-10-08T04:00:00+00:00

I wake into a world in which my head is throbbing in a thick and muzzy way, where the base of my spine is as rigid as an iron rod and my innards feel raw, as though my interior flesh and organs have been scraped with a paint-scraper. I moan involuntarily, blinking out the glaring light of consciousness, toss my head from side to side to rid myself of the pain and then close my eyes again, sinking back into the secure cave of darkness, drawn back down into a deep, drugged sleep.

I open heavy eyes. Figures are leaning over me; white masked faces leaning over me. Slender, chirpy young women and men in midsummer leaf-green uniforms. I think I hear white leather clogs echoing along corridors. I must be on a trolley being wheeled. No, I am static and in a bed. Sheets and covers and pillows are being tucked in around me. People are fussing over me. My head is spinning; my mind is turning corners. And I have a desperate thirst.

‘Thirsty.’

‘Here, drink this.’ A glass of water is pressed against my parched lips. A cold hand slips behind the base of my skull, raising me up. I suck and draw and dribble clumsily, lacking control, and then, head resting once more against the newly plumped pillows, I disappear, plunging yet again down the rabbit warren corridors of my damaged self.

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