İsmail Erden

Shadow

Cast up in Ankara for reasons of the kind by which unforeseen winds wrench a ship from its course, seize its helm and fling it onto a shore crowded with jagged rocks - that rugged city whose hollows, when all is said and done, far outnumber its rare stretches of level ground - I left it at the first opportunity my accrued standing as a civil servant afforded me and took refuge in a seaside town, and the school where I took up my post there stood right beside the coast road, near enough to the sea to let me leave the gloom of the capital behind in no time, and steeped in the sound of waves that now and then rose and swelled.