"In her black swimsuit, she is on her back in that other world which sunglasses create. I am looking down at her. I am thin and skinny, too tall for my age. She is in there in that other world and like a stone skimming across the surface of a river her own life skims over me. It did not rain that day, not even once. I could not scrape my eyes away from her surface." --Dambudzo Marachera The Black Insider