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Article: Drowning.(Short Story)
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- Quadrant
- Article date:
- June 1, 2000
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As a child, Eleanor believed she did drown. When telling the story, she was hell-bent and red from believing it. It wasn't the sudden nothing under her feet, the quiet intensity of the velvet river all around her, but her father's panic that convinced her. It was the way the water suddenly seethed and boiled, the muted hammering in her ears, the terrible wrench of her head as his groping hand found her trailing hair and gripped it fiercely, arresting her slow descent and hauling her upwards into the sharp, cold air. That, yes, and the way he tanned her backside even as he pushed her up the slippery bank, the way his hat had drifted against the reeds and how he threw his ...