She Does Not Remember

Portrait of Anna Swir
Anna Swir 1909–1984

She was an evil stepmother. In her old age she is slowly dying in an empty hovel.

She shudders like a clutch of burnt paper. She does not remember that she was evil. But she knows that she feels cold.

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