The Program by Hal Niedzviecki

Author:Hal Niedzviecki [Niedzviecki, Hal]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-37076-1
Publisher: Random House of Canada
Published: 2005-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

She packs for the outing. It’s a dream she’s in. Somebody’s else’s fantasy. A dream she thought she had forgotten.

Look how big my fingers are. How far away they seem.

She rolls a sleeping bag into a portable bundle. Look at the tiny wrists, how do they keep those big gangly hands attached to my arms? Look at that. Isn’t that something? And will it be very cold? Will there be bugs? Will the days become porous wet nights?—water lapping against the rocks, sky thick with stars—time-delayed beacons arranged in mythological constellations nobody remembers any more. One million and one, one million and two, she’ll count all night, she’ll count to make it last longer. It’s amazing, how many stars there are, how we can see each other in the starlight, pass each other in the dark where the trees beckon you further into the forest. We make our decisions and they take us over and it’s like we never decided anything, like someone else decided. He only hit me once. The ex. The little brother. The man I married who went crazy and did terrible things.

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