MONSTERS
On the way, Mityai told me a horrifying story about a band of beggars who got their hands on him in Omsk and earned good money from him, and drank this money, beating him up for nothing. It didn’t seem enough to them that Mityai was blind and that his face was mutilated by shell fragments. So that people would feel even more pity for him, they decided to cut off his right hand. He was lucky that he accidentally overheard them conspiring. Meanwhile, past the collective farm hay-drying house, where the monstrous brothers were sleeping, a cart was travelling along the road to the station – a man was taking his wife and daughter to the morning train. By the sound, Mityai realized that someone was going by. In the darkness, he was able to slip away from the bandit beggars and run up t
