Lilian's Story (2008)
“Horses kicked down their stables. Pigs flew, figs grew thorns. The infant mewled and stared and the doctor assured the mother that a caul was a lucky sign. A girl? the father exclaimed, outside in the waiting room, tiled as if for horrible emergencies. This was a contingency he was not prepared for, but he rallied within a day and announced: Lilian. She will be called Lilian Una.
Later, the mother lay on her white bed at home, her palms turned up, staring at the moulding of the ceiling with the... expression of surprise she wore for the next twenty years. You didn’t tell me it would hurt, she whispered to her friends as they patted the crocheted bedjacket, and she was already beginning to suffer her long overlapping series of indispositions. The friends picked up the baby from its crib beside the bed and placed it in the mother’s arms. A lovely picture, they agreed, and left.
Sunlight slanted between the curtains so that a band lay across the bed like something alive. The carpet flamed where the sun fell over it, and on the ceiling the reflection of the waves of the bay outside flickered on and on like a conversation.MoreLess
Later, the mother lay on her white bed at home, her palms turned up, staring at the moulding of the ceiling with the... expression of surprise she wore for the next twenty years. You didn’t tell me it would hurt, she whispered to her friends as they patted the crocheted bedjacket, and she was already beginning to suffer her long overlapping series of indispositions. The friends picked up the baby from its crib beside the bed and placed it in the mother’s arms. A lovely picture, they agreed, and left.
Sunlight slanted between the curtains so that a band lay across the bed like something alive. The carpet flamed where the sun fell over it, and on the ceiling the reflection of the waves of the bay outside flickered on and on like a conversation.MoreLess
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