The Syphilis Artist by Per Olav Verås

Author:Per Olav Verås [Verås, Per Olav]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Vanguard Press
Published: 2021-11-24T16:00:00+00:00

I am your sister

I hear the crackling of a fire burning.

I am lying on the floor, under a woollen blanket, a down pillow under my head. There is candlelight, the glow of logs in the fireplace.

The room aglow, the smell of my oil paints lingers.

Delicate fingers move down my forehead, dancing down my face, stopping at my bruised lips.

A finger inserted between the broken front teeth, pulling out a chipped tooth.

The insertion of a plump strawberry in my mouth. I chew, hungrily, my senses enlivening. Swallowing, my throat reeling from a dull pain.

A finger stopping, pressing deliberately on my lips. “Don’t worry. You are safe now.” A woman’s voice.

I brood on the moment, the erotic panic of finding myself alone with a mysterious woman.

The outline of her face coming into and out of view. A woman in a black dance leotard, her hair in a bun. In a stylish red vest with gold braid.

I see her dark olive skin and her searching big blue eyes. Around her neck a crystal teardrop pendant on a silver chain. She drops her hair from a bun.

The way the girl stares out at the sea through the open window, from that ancient stone villa atop the hill, the girl in gold braid and a plaid vest with dark hair and olive skin and eyes the colour of the sea, the way she steals into my dreams.

My jaw struggling to move, feeling tight muscles relaxing, as if it had been wired shut. She presses grapes into my mouth.

Then it hits me.

“You are the woman I have been dreaming of.”

This was the girl in my dreams, the girl attending the old man in the villa on the seashore.

“I found you in the doorway. You didn’t come to and start talking until an hour ago.”

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