Birds of the Shade
Dan-Benaya Seri
1987
“The birds, Regina! The birds! The birds!” he cried out. “You don’t hear? Our child…Issachar!…Issachar!…Regina!…That bird…Issachar…that bird…that bird.…”
When Luna entered the room with her bridegroom, holding a plate of squash by order of her father, she found him shaking on her mother’s bed and weeping out the name of her dead brother. In the few…
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