Heather Thomas
speaker
1,616 appearances
7 recordings
2 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 31 Aug
Heather Thomas’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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His cries are barely muffled.
I should have gone to him.
It's been snowing for days without surcease, the winds howling almost loud enough to hide his cries.
He's been crying for me for weeks.
Every night his cries get sharper, more desperate, more accusing.
Even when exhaustion forces my body into uneasy slumber, his cries pierce my dreams.
His father has been gone for days out of town, to a market or to help a brother.
The excuse doesn't matter.
It's not true.
I can't say anymore if it's day or night.
The sun barely peaks over the horizon, and the snow lies heavy over the windows.
Neither sunlight nor moonlight, if there is any, shines through the cracks in the battered shutters.
The hearth is unlit, despite the half-full basket of kindling beside it.
I cannot bring myself to invite the warmth of a fire when my child is dead and cold.
The flesh around my ragged nails is tinted blue, like the baby's lips were.
I wish the chattering of my teeth could make me deaf to his cries.
I begged his father to take me with him, away from this cottage with the stench of a dried-out stew poisoning the air, away from these woods and the things that haunt it.
He refused, told me the cries were in my head.
I know they're not.
If I was going mad, his cries would not be muffled by the shut door and heavy snow.
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