Inktober 2016

Illustrations based on Gabriel García Márquez’s novel 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'.

Two nights later Ursula saw Prudencio Aguilar again in the bathroom, using the esparto plug to wash the clotted blood rom his throat. On another night she saw him strolling in the rain. Jose Arcadio Buendia, annoyed by his wife's hallucinations, went out in to the courtyard armed with the spear. There was the deadman with his sad expression.

" You go to hell," Jose Arcadio Buendia shouted at him. "Just as many times as you come back, I will kill you again."

Prudencio Aguilar did not go away, nor did Jose Arcadio Buendia dare throw his spear. He never slept well after that. He was tormented by the immense desolation with which the deadman had looked at him through the rain.