Peter Lewis
speaker
1,888 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 20 Sep
Peter Lewis’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I run water over it to make it nice and heavy before wrapping it about my right hand and wrist.
When I return to father, he starts up again right away.
Without the mirror, a father would never see anything again.
I could have grabbed anything to do the job.
I could break the mirror from a distance.
But this is a cleaning that I want to do by hand.
I reel back.
Something must have changed in me.
I must be having one of those moment of clarity things.
An epiphany, that's the word.
I punch that mirror with everything I have in me.
Glass shatters, making an odd, crunchy noise against the back of the mirror before dropping in long wedges and slivers at my feet.
If I expect there to be some massive, catastrophic consequence from this, some baleful final scream from my father, or an attack by every spirit who occupies this house,
Instead, I'm rewarded with silence, broken only by the glass still tinkling out of the frame onto the floor.
And that silence is all the vindication I need.
For minutes I soak it in, my eyes closed, until Grandfather clangs out the fourth hour one clamorous peal at a time.
The noise is either louder this time or my imagination amplifies it.
There is an accusatory tone to the peals, too, a distinct note of unforgivable sin.
I'd broken the mirror, and the mirror was bound to the house, just as Grandfather was.
I stagger over to the wretched old monolith, tracking a footprint of blood with every step.
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