Lightning People (2011)
Lightning People
“It is 1928 turning 1929, three hours left before the calendar becomes a useless piece of scrap paper. Chintz curtains are pinned closed, and the sounds of joy and fistfights stream through the open window.
Aurelia clenches her auburn hair, cursing god, as the house is riddled with specialists. The doctor at the foot of the bed shakes his head, and the Catholic priest hides in the downstairs pantry. Their boys sit on the staircase, biting and pinching and staring dazed the way children do when t...hey are suddenly thrown into the wilds of adult panic.
Aurelia bends over, registering her husband’s eyes, small, black orbs reflecting the room like mirror balls, and she sees a word coming across his lips. He’s trying to say something, but it just won’t come. Aurelia has the jittery streak known in redheads, clamping a wet washcloth to her own cheeks and then to those of her husband. He’s still breathing, but there’s no flash of recognition, no light that so often settled on her, that psychopathic look of violence, which she always mistook for love.MoreLess
Aurelia clenches her auburn hair, cursing god, as the house is riddled with specialists. The doctor at the foot of the bed shakes his head, and the Catholic priest hides in the downstairs pantry. Their boys sit on the staircase, biting and pinching and staring dazed the way children do when t...hey are suddenly thrown into the wilds of adult panic.
Aurelia bends over, registering her husband’s eyes, small, black orbs reflecting the room like mirror balls, and she sees a word coming across his lips. He’s trying to say something, but it just won’t come. Aurelia has the jittery streak known in redheads, clamping a wet washcloth to her own cheeks and then to those of her husband. He’s still breathing, but there’s no flash of recognition, no light that so often settled on her, that psychopathic look of violence, which she always mistook for love.MoreLess
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