The Distant Summer
The scissors cut the wet membrane with a wet, tearing sound, and the blood that splatters onto your white apron does not dry. It sits there, a dark, pulsing knot on the wool, beating in time with the thud of your own heart against your ribs. You are thirty-two years old, and you have delivered four hundred and twelve babies in the city of Ostrava, but this is the first time the stain has looked...
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