The Unforbidden
January 29, 2004 08:27 AM
Classic Dave Eggers. Very nice.
The Unforbidden Is Compulsory:Manning the canister — the squeak of the balloons being filled! It was painful and sudden, even when expected — was Sergei’s cousin Dmitri, who was sixteen but already more craven than his uncle, more desperate, with fewer qualms; he’d grown up in Moscow under Yeltsin and acknowledged no laws. He’d lost his father, a brother and two uncles to the Moscow River — all had drowned in the summer, stinking with Stoli — and he owed no one his pity or mercy. The ballooning process suited him, as it was brutish and short, and sounded nasty.
