Victoria Beckham pushes a wheelbarrow across a bridge. She is taking Curveball somewhere. They are not going to a formal event. Victoria is wearing baggy work clothes. She is sweating. Curveball is curled in the barrow under a canvas tarp. He is worried that someone from an intelligence service will do him in on a bridge that spans two lawless cities.
Victoria's cellphone rings. She is told to turn right when they cross the bridge and walk along the river and wait for two men in dark suits. They will arrive later in the day by canoe and take Curveball downriver.
It is the hottest hour of the day. Victoria labors with the wheelbarrow. Curveball wants to use her cellphone, but he is unable to make his case. Victoria thinks of what she could have done with the money that funded the war. In the distance she sees the canoe. She waves to the men in dark suits.
When the men finally arrive, they take Victoria against her will. They tape her arms and mouth and lay her in the bottom of the canoe. They used the tarp to cover her. Without saying anything to Curveball, the start down the river.
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
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