Rachel: a memory forgotten. (short story)

From: The Antioch Review | Date: September 22, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

Sister Rachel's illness began the day Mrs. Levo, a parishioner, had beaten her. Mrs. Levo's son, Tony, had been one of the children killed in the school fire. Rachel's upper lip had been cut, her left eye blackened, and the skin broken on her right cheek. There were bruises on her back and upper arms. Her chin, nose, and forehead were skinned from hitting the carpet, and her right wrist was sprained by the fall. It was on that night, the night after the beating, that Rachel had been found wandering through the gutted school, her garb torn away, her body - her face, her arms, her ...

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