Inktober 2016

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

One September morning, after having coffee in the kitchen with Aureliano, Jose Arcadio was finishing his daily bath when through the openings in the tiles the four children he had expelled from the house burst in. 

Without giving him time to defend himself, they jumped in to the pool fully clothed, grabbed him by the hair,and held his head under the water until the bubbling of his death throes ceased on the surface and his silent and pale dolphin body slipped down to the bottom of the fragrant water. 

Then they took out the three sacks of gold from the hiding place which was known only to them and their victim.