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- Title: Headhunter (Short Story)
- Author : Constance Christopher
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 92 KB
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Sister Rose had christened me, as she had the others, in the river instead of the Pacific Ocean, because it was fresh water. She named me Ariadne because my hair was golden-red and because, like the Cretan queen, I was deserted on the shore. Sister Rose never did anything by the book, mainly because The Book had been eaten by ants. She'd found the black leather binding with the gold-embossed cross down the front on a stump of a boyo tree at the edge of camp where Ruki, the usually fastidious church superintendent, had forgotten it. A few feet from the stump she'd recovered a handful of pieces of paper with words on them. Words she nervously tried to organize into proper sentences. She followed the tiny torn pages into the forest and caught up with the trail of ants, thousands of them carrying bits of her Bible, like sails, on their backs, an armada of crusaders building their nest out of holy words for their solitary queen. Aside from her two robes and black ankle boots with ties, Sister Rose had only a few possessions: two silver crucifixes, a watercolor picture of Christ's face, a plain cross that hung from a chain around her waist, a rose-quartz rosary, and, of course, her prayer book and Bible. When she was reading her Bible, her face--framed by her black veil and white cowl--shone like a pearl in an oyster shell. The young nun had sensitive blue eyes and lovely hands, which she folded behind her when she went for a walk.
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