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You Should Be Sleeping (Excerpts)
Pubblicato 16 mag 2023
Aggiornato 16 mag 2023
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You Should Be Sleeping (Excerpts)
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Author: Kiss Tibor Noé
Translator: Austin Wagner
March 2023
A day, a sun, just like before. Receding, dipping, disappearing. A scarlet streak across the horizon, a gust of wind, they promised a cold night. Scattered trees hung their heads, silhouetted against the blood red streak. Far off beyond the road, power lines. The buzz of high-tension power lines. Abandoned farmsteads. Rust-chewed feed troughs. Beyond the farms, the non-existent farms, nothing.
The match sputtered in Pista Tatár’s hand. He’d cracked a pack of cigarettes, the second that day. Might have been seven at night. Or eight, who was counting. Nobody round there even wore a watch, they didn’t measure time. From cigarette to cigarette, feeding to feeding, sunrise to sunset, that’s how the minutes passed. He flicked away the
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