Day's End And Other Stories (2014) - Plot & Excerpts
Everywhere hung a great stillness as if a blessing were being bestowed upon those things: only the women, as if oblivious, moved beneath it, unevenly, stooping, rising and going on. Each of the women had a sack with her. Sometimes a faint breeze played among their skirts and sent a ripple through the crooked line. Haunting the edge of the woodside, thrusting themselves into the hedges, straddling the ditches, loosening stumps of rotted wood with their feet, all the time the sound of their voices filled the clear, hushed air of the afternoon like the chatter of strange birds. Of these women two were fat, very short of breath; thick, heavy skirts hid their feet and woollen shawls most of their heads; but like the rest their hands moved quickly, their sacks were already more than half-full. Among the others was a little, pale-faced woman wearing a man’s cap, the sleeves of her blouse rolled up beyond her sharp red elbows, and above all these, in a sort of ever-vigilant, avaricious and mean dominion over them, a woman of nearly six feet strode swiftly, straddled the ditches with ease and made the deepest holes in the woodside.
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