Small Stories

Small Stories

In the Garden
The Sense of Smell
Deadly Mathematics
The Voice
What Now?
The Delay
Man of the House

The train that was supposed to arrive at seven o’clock in the evening actually arrived two hours later, which forced Mirko to spend two hours at the station restaurant, emerging so drunk that Slavica, his sister, nearly hysterical due to the prolonged journey, refused to get into his car, causing his wife Vida to burst into tears, because she had juggled the dishes on the stove for more than three hours in the attempt to offer them warm supper, and the sight of her tears caused their younger daughter Julia to also start whining, after which they were accompanied by the older sister, Maja, so that in one way or another, the judge said, it isn’t at all strange that, surrounded by this choral weeping, Mirko went to get his gun and a bit later, when Slavica arrived on foot from the station, fired three bullets into her: two in the head, one in the heart.

2018-08-21T17:22:43+00:00 September 21st, 2013|Categories: Prose, Literature, Blesok no. 91|0 Comments