The Body Snatcher
“I stepped back in sudden panic, unable to take my eyes off the coarsely sewn cut that began at the pubis and ended high in the chest. That was what I was afraid of, over. The legs had also been cut open and stitched. It’s a common procedure in the autopsy of people who suffer violent deaths, Sulamita explained.
I could barely keep my balance, I was sweating, nauseated at the putrid smell mixed with bleach. It’s the end, I thought, supporting myself against the wall.
Eliana doesn’t know yet, she... said. And while she told me that Moacir had been found in his cell, tied to a sheet attached to the bars on the window, a single idea came into my head: I was next.
It was this morning, Sulamita continued, when the prisoners were sunning themselves in the courtyard.
They’re going to kill me, I said. They’re sending me a message.
You think, she answered, that didn’t occur to me when I saw Moacir on the table? That I didn’t think about you and everything you told me the day before yesterday?MoreLess
I could barely keep my balance, I was sweating, nauseated at the putrid smell mixed with bleach. It’s the end, I thought, supporting myself against the wall.
Eliana doesn’t know yet, she... said. And while she told me that Moacir had been found in his cell, tied to a sheet attached to the bars on the window, a single idea came into my head: I was next.
It was this morning, Sulamita continued, when the prisoners were sunning themselves in the courtyard.
They’re going to kill me, I said. They’re sending me a message.
You think, she answered, that didn’t occur to me when I saw Moacir on the table? That I didn’t think about you and everything you told me the day before yesterday?MoreLess
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