The Flight of the Dove
Youval Shimoni
1990
B
The light passes through the curtain and brightens it, spreading a dull glow over the night-table and drawing a single shining line over the edge of the ashtray. The woman’s one eye follows it until it darkens and it melts away into a concave surface with a few grains of dust still lying in it. Her other eye is pressed into the pillow and without…
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