Dona Nobis Pacem (Grant Us Peace)
by David Szalay

1/6 (roughly?)

272'

This is a short story I came across recently. I am supposed to read as a sixty-two-year-old man, but there it is, this is the only voice I've got, but I assume it can be seen as told by a woman, if my magic works? Enjoy.

link: https://harpers.org/archive/2017/03/dona-nobis-pacem/
illustration by me. (references from online, statues in museums of Bergama.)