Time’s Mouth by Edan Lepucki EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Edan Lepucki
- Language: English
- Genre: Time Travel Science Fiction
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LET’S BEGIN WITH URSA.
She is Ray’s mother—though, in 1938, when she is born in the caul like
a mystic in Mystic Connecticut, that lineage is yet to be written. Her name
isn’t even Ursa yet. It’s Sharon.
At first, Sharon is only a beautiful baby, and then an adorable little girl,
living with her parents in a creaking clapboard house with a narrow
staircase and the faint tickle of mildew in both bathrooms. On a chair by the
front door her father’s hat settles like a mound of dark soil.
Imagine Mystic, Connecticut, back then: the brick post office, the ships
in the port, the sea salt in the air. Imagine young Sharon, the child she used
to be, bows at the end of her pigtails, saddle shoes on her feet, porcelain
dolls lining her bedroom shelf. Nothing amiss. Or everything.
Imagine her a few years older: slipping into reverie during a dull
classroom lesson, or riding her bike through town, or biting her nails.
Picture her at sixteen years old, lying on her twin bed in her room.
It’s a Wednesday. About five in the evening. Mid-October.
It was chilly out, but because Sharon didn’t want to have to remake her
bed, she lay very still atop her pink chenille bedspread. There was a hole in
her left sock, and she wiggled the exposed toe before tucking it back into
the white cotton. She was tall, and her feet reached the end of the mattress.
Downstairs, her mother cooked dinner, and Sharon could smell the pot roast
and the mushy carrots, no doubt too much food for a widow and her
daughter.
She felt bored—desolate with it. The lamp on her dresser cast a sallow
glow across the pale blue wall and the painting of the teddy bear that had
hung in her bedroom for her entire life. The bear’s black marble eyes were
beseeching and needy, but if she took the painting down, its absence would
reveal a darker rectangle of blue on the wall, and what then?
Sharon was a high school junior and hated everything about it except
slamming her locker shut between classes, and afterward, tossing her
majorette baton high into the sky before catching it in her fist. Right now,
she wanted a cigarette, yet she didn’t dare steal another from her mother.
The widow had begun counting them.
The days were getting shorter, and within weeks the trees would be
spindly and bare. At the thought of the red and orange leaves fluttering
from the trees to a soppy ground, she closed her eyes. She held her breath
for as long as she could before letting it out in a rush like a swimmer
coming up from the deep.
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