Empty pages Episode 11
It has been 3 weeks since the last post I am told. I present episode 11, not as many stories as the previous episodes, hopefully it makes up for that in other ways. :) #71 Silent letters He tried repeating after the man on screen pacing around the room. The word sounded different when he said it. What did it mean? He couldn't understand this language but wished he could. His neighbour went to school, she'd help him for sure.. She could've been his grand daughter, a fraction of his age.. They sat there, outside their shanty in the evenings. With the street lamps illuminating their choppy progress. Her tiny fingers and then his rugged ones would trace the letters. Why would they put letters in a word, that would be silent? These foreigners were odd people, he told himself. People made fun of him. What was the point of it all the asked. He pretended to be deaf and aloof,which mostly worked. He soon learnt enough words to be able to read subtitles. Four letters...