Sara Vancea writing …
… a series of chapters for the book –
Valkyrie’s Music
by Sara Vancea
Chapter 3 – Pool
– Pool – Valkyrie looks up to the sky – she is 2.5 and is floating on her back gazing up at the clouds. Her lungs are filling, breathing has stopped – she is drowning. The odd shapes and colours are drawing her in, she is not afraid or resisting. I, Leerie, am standing …
Chapter 2 – Piano
– Piano – Valkyrie is 7 and is sitting at a huge, upright piano in her bedroom. I am sitting on the window ledge. She has been looking at a pair of absurd pink and white bathers given to her as a recent birthday present, with rows of frilly bits that bring to mind …
Chapter 1 – Musician
– Musician – It was the end. I am talking about Valkyrie’s latest piece of music that would play and play over and over in her head as though she had missed something. Nothing had gotten away, it was all there, it just needed to hover around a bit in a loop and run free …