Prologue To Measure: A Narrative Fiction

Two black eyes of his former self heavily circled, Luca pushed the limits of his energy, and entered the suffocating crowd of the village market. His puffy face hid under the veil of his shame. He glanced over his shoulder to the smell of baking bread. Lala stared back at him, flashing a smile. “Luca, can we buy some figs?”
“No, don’t even look at them, they are overpriced.”
Her face froze with a sad eyed smile. “Please? I’m hungry.”
“Then you should have had breakfast.”
She stared at him with wide liquid gaze. “I’ve never had a fig before.”
“Find something else to look at.”
Their mother told them to make it quick. She had heard of many arrests where families were taken to some place. He didn’t know why they would arrest Gypsies? He had seen some Jews who were arrested. Children so skinny that he could barely recognize them as being human. …show more content…
He never met one that he didn’t like.
He turned to a smoky haired woman, holding a burlap sack of sunflower seeds between her knees. “I’ll have four egg cups, please.”
She nodded with a wrinkled smile, carefully measured out four wooden egg-cups, and rolled them into a newspaper cone. The neighborhood people spat out black husks. Children ran around, and spat them at each other laughing.
Lala’s glittering eyes were bright with curiosity at a snow globe she found at a booth.
A sparkly rose tree, thinly twisted, and elegant. Her face erupted with a luminous joy, and she looked at Luca for a quick moment. “Come look at this!”
“What now Lala?”
He saw the awe behind her smile.
“It’s a rose

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