Lithuania
Myra Sklarew
1995
…I remember a woman
who sat on the pot where the apples cooked in the cold
basement, her face black from smoke. And here, near this brick
building with a red tile roof, is one of our family, Mausha
Volpe, hatmaker. And nearby, her cousin Aaron. And
here live two killers of Keidan. When I talk to them,
I make them afraid. And here is the hill
whe…
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