Page 6 - The Mending Season

thing, especially on the topics o fmen, money and rage. The sisters cursed, spat, and sat with their legs apart instead o fcrossed. They wentfor months without speaking to anyone but each other. They were the only people on their street who had a high wall built between themselves and their back neighbours.After Tumanes death, and with the news ofMalebones child on its way, the sisters opened their curtains, cut the weeds and shrubs, and mowed the lawn. Malesedifound work awayfrom home and once in a while the two younger sisters greeted their elders in the street. The look andfeel oftheir home was morefavourable to the outsider.They say a persons greatness can be measured by the number o f people at his or herfuneral; everyone speculated that it was the number ofpeople at their sistersfuneral thatprompted the threesisters to open up a little more o ftheir world and let their neigh­ bours in.