Söndags-smakbit # 45

Bloggen Betraktelser ger oss på söndagar chansen att publicera ett litet smakprov ur en bok vi läser.
Jag lånade The Seawomen av Chloe Timms på biblioteket. Jag har länkat titeln till Goodreads där du kan läsa mer.
Smakbit sid.18
”You don´t look at the sea, you don´t think of the sea and you nver go near it. Want to know what happens? When you were a baby. No. Before that. Long before. Sometime. A woman, she looked out at the sea and those Seawomen, and they called to her. You know what they said? They said, ”In the night, when everyone´s sleeping, you go to your neighbour´s house and you curse it, You curse that house”. And she did. The next morning the cows lay dead in the field, but worse, the baby….”

sid.95
”- I was frozen in an endless cycle of an impossible choice – the gang or the sea. Them or him. I felt like a child, wanting the sand to swallow me, for someone else to make the decision. I expected the stranger to dive back into the water, disapperaring like a trick of light. He didn´t move, looking between me and the sea. I imagined us torn apart, slaughtered, our bodies hung on hooks in the churchyard for all to see.”