Sherbrookes: Possession / Sherbrookes / Stillness (American Literature Series)
“They inflict themselves upon her eyes like headlights in a mountain pass at night. For survival’s sake, Maggie has to peer ahead. She sees clouds that seem like smoke, are smoke, billowing about the house. Judah stands in the firelit center, fists black with coal, his forearm muscles knotted as he grinds the lumps to dust. He blames her, Hattie says, and they huddle in the kitchen. But since he will not voice his rage—has lost his voice, she fears, is strangling in there, his vocal cords cut—sh...e herself accepts no blame.
So when the house explodes it is in a dream of vengeance, not justice, he’s dreamed. He appears surrounded by fire—has always been. Once she told him, joking, that he’d missed his calling and should have been an arsonist, but Judah only stared at her, his maul and wedges in one hand, three split ash logs in the other, wondering, was that a joke? He’d deliberated so; he pondered all her offhand levity and wrecked it, laughing late.
She sees her infant, Seth, caught in the same explosion while he choked for air.MoreLess
So when the house explodes it is in a dream of vengeance, not justice, he’s dreamed. He appears surrounded by fire—has always been. Once she told him, joking, that he’d missed his calling and should have been an arsonist, but Judah only stared at her, his maul and wedges in one hand, three split ash logs in the other, wondering, was that a joke? He’d deliberated so; he pondered all her offhand levity and wrecked it, laughing late.
She sees her infant, Seth, caught in the same explosion while he choked for air.MoreLess
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