Travellers May Still Return by Michael Kenyon

Author:Michael Kenyon
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781771871884
Publisher: Thistledown Press
Published: 2019-07-31T16:00:00+00:00

“Something stinks!” Kata screeches.

“What?” says Apocat.

“I said something stinks.”

“The sea, is it again? I’m all stuffed up. It’s all this dust.”

“No, not the sea. But you had a bad dream last night. You said thick ice covered everything and it was the end of our village.”

“Did I, Kata? I’m afraid I don’t remember.”

To expect the weavers by the river to solve the village’s future is futile. My wife’s arm is mending but she can’t sleep the night through without being woken by pain.

True of me, too, what Abi said. I don’t believe in myself either. I loved hearing my name spoken by my parents, though seldom heard it. Danny was a beautiful youth and he made sense of me, but I was bullied by the kids at school, who called me stupid, moron, goofy. I looked in a mirror and wanted no part of me. Not that ugly boy, not that shame-filled boy. There were days so bleak they felt like the end of time, though buds were on the trees. As a young man I wanted the outsider’s task, exile, and to find something beyond the village and be worshiped for the discovery. I probably gave Danny the idea of escape, we surely talked about it, but I never had the nerve to go, though I did manage a few years at university. I know dislocation is the great maker of selves. The attempt to tell stories has given me inklings.

Every story is beginningless and it’s not necessary to know the end, just the meanders. Abi stands in a nine-month loop, between dark and first light, but I won’t choose and order each moment. I have given up that kind of telling. Simply, I wait for backache to subside and hope Danny and Abi make a flammable thing and the next spark will burn us all up, not tear us apart. That is wishful.

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