The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits (2014)
“On the broken road to St. Andrews, a cavalryman hangs back till he is out of sight of his comrades, till the dragoons and the musketeers and the regiments of foot have all marched past him. Till the flag, with its stained white cross on a blue field, is gone by. Then he turns off over the empty fields towards Perth. He wears a buff coat with a worn blue ribbon; his hands smell of salt-petre and blood. He is owed four months' wages. He feels nothing, nothing at all.
Beady Bell an Mary Gray, ...They were twa bonny lasses Scotland is plague-stricken. Folk wear bruises of mauve and orange and yellow for a few days, and then they die. Sometimes, of course, they drop dead before they've had time to bruise. Edinburgh has emptied out like a puking stomach, the cavalryman hears from a passing messenger; the city fathers' carriages are rattling into the countryside. Some say the pest has come down from the Dutch ports on the backs of sailors; others blame an evil miasma that hangs in the air; others, the war.MoreLess
Beady Bell an Mary Gray, ...They were twa bonny lasses Scotland is plague-stricken. Folk wear bruises of mauve and orange and yellow for a few days, and then they die. Sometimes, of course, they drop dead before they've had time to bruise. Edinburgh has emptied out like a puking stomach, the cavalryman hears from a passing messenger; the city fathers' carriages are rattling into the countryside. Some say the pest has come down from the Dutch ports on the backs of sailors; others blame an evil miasma that hangs in the air; others, the war.MoreLess
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