Rise (2015)
“The words are exactly right. A tree-tunnel. Oaks and rhodies and cellophane sky, flashing diamonds of light. As she moves forwards, the intermittent sun catches shadow, and leftover threads of raindrops. Everything’s polished and crackling: the gloss of evergreen, the buds, the lulling sun. It glistens, almost, and she has this sensation of standing on a moving pavement, where she is still and it’s all around which glides and flickers, moving on and catching her up, in continuous fluid lines. S...he is rushing in an artery. And then, she’s out of the trees, returned to the real world, where no time has passed at all and it is an ordinary afternoon.
She can see scattered tools, a discarded pencil. Soft footprints leading out. The archaeologists must be in the pub, because if Mhairi’s closed the café, there’s nowhere else to go in downtown Kilmacarra. Unless they’re in that wee tent?
‘Hello?’ No reply. Justine’s nose is bothering her. She has always taken a cist to be a kind of warty growth.MoreLess
She can see scattered tools, a discarded pencil. Soft footprints leading out. The archaeologists must be in the pub, because if Mhairi’s closed the café, there’s nowhere else to go in downtown Kilmacarra. Unless they’re in that wee tent?
‘Hello?’ No reply. Justine’s nose is bothering her. She has always taken a cist to be a kind of warty growth.MoreLess
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