He Knows

By Ulf Wolf
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Published: Nov. 14, 2012
Words: 6,274 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781301257683

Short description

Every day is an out-and-out fight for survival. Of the fittest. The sun is murderously hot. The river water is too dirty to drink. So dirty it will kill you. But what if the river is the only water you can reach? He is a thief and a survivor, he will find a way.

Extended description

This he knows: His name is Chandra. Is one of the things he knows. Many long days and nights ago he heard the name spoken, and it was meant for him, that he knows. His name. Spoken by a person he loved, remembers loving, remembers loving him, remembers leaving. To fetch food, she said, stay here. Please, Chandra, stay here. That was the last he ever heard her say.

Chandra. That is his name. That is one of the things he knows.

Other things he knows: He knows what you can eat, and what you cannot eat. He knows what tastes good, what does not taste good, what will make you sick, what will not. (Read more) This he knows: His name is Chandra. Is one of the things he knows. Many long days and nights ago he heard the name spoken, and it was meant for him, that he knows. His name. Spoken by a person he loved, remembers loving, remembers loving him, remembers leaving. To fetch food, she said, stay here. Please, Chandra, stay here. That was the last he ever heard her say.

Chandra. That is his name. That is one of the things he knows.

Other things he knows: He knows what you can eat, and what you cannot eat. He knows what tastes good, what does not taste good, what will make you sick, what will not.

He knows: The pain that comes from lack of food. The pain that now is a constant companion. The pain he knows is called hunger.

He knows: His alley, the one that houses his shelter. He knows dust, he knows heat, he knows the suspicious eyes of strangers, he knows the satisfaction of water.

He knows: The sun rising is morning, is fresh hunger, he knows the sun sinking and sinking into dark is night, is sleep, is un-knowing, is freedom, where you can dream of food, no longer haunted by the painful shadow, though it never truly leaves prodding him from above or below—he never settles on which—just as a reminder that it is still there.

The sun, the monster sun, orange and gigantic beyond the rim of roof-tops and hot already, bakes the dream of food away and prompts him awake with unfriendly beams. He was eating: Fish, fried fish, crisp and dripping with spicy oil, a mountain of rice in his hand and fried fish, always eating in his dream, and most of the time fried fish with rice, good to put in your mouth, to chew, to swallow fried fish.
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Tags

india, rescue, thief, kindness, survival, drowning, beggar child

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