The trembling voices

Book name: The Shaking Voices Author: Manuel Revas Publisher: Nineveh Book classification: Novel Number of pages: 176 About the book: We were alone, Maria and I, hugging each other in the bathroom. We hid there to escape from fear. During the stormy days, we used to hear the sound of the raging sea, but today it is the sound of the rusty and dilapidated water tank. Finally, we heard her voice. At first, she was calling us with disturbance, then with escalating tension. We should have responded to her and told her we were fine, but she beat us to it. We heard her panting and her footsteps, and she was walking energetically as if she had found her way. Maria pulled the sliding bathroom door, but she pushed from the other side, bringing light with her and carrying storms of fear in her eyes. Her fear was the fear of a mother reaching home and not finding her children, whom she left playing peacefully. And our fear, in turn, was primitive because it was our first fear.