SETTING: RUSSIA

„Go, Katya, said Yekaterina’s mother in the afternoon, when the light began to fade again. Go and play outside for a while, Papa’s tired. The wind was ice and froze the skipping rope Yekaterina dragged behind her in an instant, so stiff that she couldn’t play with it any more. The snow on the ground looked grey, as grey as the sky. There was no telling where the island ended and the sea began.“

NIGHT WITHOUT SHADOWS
© Gisa Klönne