The Sleeping World
“He closed his hand around my arm, tugging me into a cement room with only a bare bulb and the scent of sweat tortured out. I turned in the water, nothing to propel off but a fading catalyst within, nothing to kick against but the air exiting me. I bit his fingers and my mouth exploded with salt. He was nothing. Nothing other than the one room I wouldn’t go into. The one room that held the one way I could have saved Alexis. The light swung from a bare bulb into the yellow streetlamps of my abuel...a’s apartment on Calle Grillo, and the silence into the sound of the garbage truck backing up the night Alexis asked me for help and I wouldn’t. I closed my eyes because I knew who I would see next if I didn’t. I heard the door open and Alexis walk in. I didn’t want to see him beneath the water. If I looked at him, then he couldn’t come back with me. I knew that much.
Like he had above the water, Alexis asked me to keep the package, and again I refused and fell asleep.MoreLess
Like he had above the water, Alexis asked me to keep the package, and again I refused and fell asleep.MoreLess
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