The Stolen Gospels
“A young peasant woman whose father tilled the land and whose mother cooked and cleaned for the local parish priest, Consuela had shamed her parents by bearing a child out of wedlock. She and her baby—now five months old—still lived with them in their small adobe house, but so religious were they that they had not spoken to her in weeks.It had been an unseasonably warm day, but now Consuela pulled her thin rebozo around her shoulders to ward off the night wind, and held her baby close, wrapped i...n the long scarf. She passed the town cantina, moving through dim light cast through an open door and windows, and heard the drunken patrons inside, laughing and talking loudly. Across the street were the cloth-draped merchant stalls of the mercado, which only a few hours before had been the bustling center of commerce for three villages, but which now lay dark and quiet. She smelled the spoiling remnants of fruit, vegetables, and fly-encrusted meat, and saw a mangy, swaybacked street dog eating scraps.From fear she could hardly catch her breath.MoreLess
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