A Faraway Smell of Lemon Read Online Free PDF Page A
Author: Rachel Joyce
leap year and time was out of joint with the movement of the Earth. The New Seekers did not win the Eurovision Song Contest but that had nothing to do with the Earth’s movement and nothing to do with the two seconds either.
The addition of time terrified Byron Hemmings. At eleven years old he was an imaginative boy. He lay awake, picturing it happen, and his heart flapped like a bird. He watched the clocks, trying to catch them at it. “When will they do it?” he asked his mother.
She stood at the new breakfast counter, dicing quarters of apple. The morning sun spilled through the glass doors in such clean squares that he could stand in them.
“Probably when we’re asleep,” she said.
“Asleep?” Things were even worse than he thought.
The addition of time terrified Byron Hemmings. At eleven years old he was an imaginative boy. He lay awake, picturing it happen, and his heart flapped like a bird. He watched the clocks, trying to catch them at it. “When will they do it?” he asked his mother.
She stood at the new breakfast counter, dicing quarters of apple. The morning sun spilled through the glass doors in such clean squares that he could stand in them.
“Probably when we’re asleep,” she said.
“Asleep?” Things were even worse than he thought.