The Sea Cloak by Nayrouz Qarmout

Author:Nayrouz Qarmout [Qarmout, Nayrouz]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Comma Press
Published: 2019-07-29T04:00:00+00:00

As the kitchen clock strikes noon, milk sprays upwards into the air. For a nanosecond of frozen time it mingles with moats of unignited potassium nitrate, sulphur and charcoal. Something that looked like just another churn has exploded, sending the western half of the hotel – its chandeliers, its staircases, its marble floors, its plastered ceilings, and all of its guests – several feet into the air. When this leap is over, the sunlight attempting to break through into its aftermath cannot reach down deep enough to see the smile that still lingers on the English woman’s face. Nor to her shoes, buried beneath tons of limestone, now badged with red and white.

The waiter staggers for a moment, still standing in the rear half of the restaurant that hasn’t collapsed. His face gushes with blood – some invisible piece of shrapnel has sliced his cheek – but he barely notices it. All he can do is stare at the splashes of colour that fringe the rubble: strips of tapestry and flesh, both heavy with history.

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