Invisible Traces · A Horror Story No. 28
The Owner of the Mountain
Alex Moonn
Five years, Rafa. Seven people. One after another, and not one of them from sickness.
Sierra Norte de Puebla, Mexico, 1980. At Doña Rufina Colmenero's wake, Beto tells the younger ones the story only the old men remember: Soledad Colmenero, born in the winter of sixty-two, the girl who saw the future. Her whole family died within five years. Then she vanished on the mountain. Rafael Quintanilla is seventeen and certain the world is happening somewhere else. He wants to know how she saw.
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At four years old, she took her grandmother’s hand and said her uncle Aureliano’s name.
She said nothing else for about three minutes. She locked up, eyes rolled inward, her fingers caught in the old woman’s fingers, and when she came back she told her grandmother, in the ordinary tone of someone describing lunch, that the mule was going to kick her leg in September and that the leg would rot to the knee before Christmas.
Her grandmother laughed. She smacked the top of her granddaughter’s head with her palm, the way you wave off nonsense, and that same day she repeated the story in line at the mill because it was funny.
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