
The Night Bakery · Episode 47 of 50
The Model
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Ana, 24, answers an advert and comes alone to Hollin Bridge, a small market town in the north of England: night baker wanted, no experience needed, room upstairs.
about 2,000 words · 5–15 min to read.
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How it begins
Helen Fenwick had not intended to come back to Bridge Street at four in the morning. She had intended to sleep in her flat in Leeds, in the clean white bed with the view of the river that she had paid a great deal of money for, and to drive to Hollin Bridge at nine like a reasonable person. Instead she had lain awake until half past two, and then got up, and dressed, and driven forty minutes through the empty dark, and let herself into an old house that smelled of paint and somebody else’s life.
Helen Fenwick hatte nicht vorgehabt, um vier Uhr morgens in die Bridge Street zurückzukommen. Sie hatte vorgehabt, in ihrer Wohnung in Leeds zu schlafen, in dem sauberen weißen Bett mit Blick auf den Fluss, für den sie sehr viel Geld bezahlt hatte, und um neun wie ein vernünftiger Mensch nach Hollin Bridge zu fahren. Stattdessen hatte sie bis halb drei wach gelegen und war dann aufgestanden, hatte sich angezogen, war vierzig Minuten durch die leere Dunkelheit gefahren und hatte sich in ein altes Haus gelassen, das nach Farbe und nach dem Leben anderer Leute roch.
She did not turn on the heaters. She stood at the window of the front room in her coat with her arms folded and looked across the road. The bakery’s window was the only lit thing in the street, a warm yellow rectangle in the stone, and in it, every so often, a figure crossed: a tall man with a grey beard, a small young woman with short black hair, carrying trays, bending, laughing at something. She could not hear them. She did not need to.
Sie schaltete die Heizstrahler nicht ein. Sie stand im Mantel am Fenster des vorderen Zimmers, die Arme verschränkt, und schaute über die Straße. Das Fenster der Bäckerei war das Einzige, was in der Straße beleuchtet war, ein warmes gelbes Rechteck im Stein, und darin ging ab und zu eine Gestalt vorbei: ein großer Mann mit grauem Bart, eine kleine junge Frau mit kurzen schwarzen Haaren, die Bleche trugen, sich bückten, über etwas lachten. Sie konnte sie nicht hören. Sie musste es auch nicht.
Behind her, on the long table, the model of the new Bridge Street glowed faintly white in the light from the street. Twenty-two flats. A roof garden. The café on the ground floor with its tiny white chairs, where the oven now stood. She had paid an architect in Leeds eleven thousand pounds for that model, and she had been proud of it, and she still believed in every square metre of it. That was the problem. Belief, in her experience, was a great deal less comfortable than doubt.
Hinter ihr auf dem langen Tisch leuchtete das Modell der neuen Bridge Street schwach weiß im Licht der Straße. Zweiundzwanzig Wohnungen. Ein Dachgarten. Das Café im Erdgeschoss mit seinen winzigen weißen Stühlen, wo jetzt der Ofen stand. Sie hatte einem Architekten in Leeds elftausend Pfund für dieses Modell bezahlt, und sie war stolz darauf gewesen, und sie glaubte immer noch an jeden Quadratmeter davon. Das war das Problem. Glaube war ihrer Erfahrung nach sehr viel unbequemer als Zweifel.
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- The Model · English (original)C1 Advanced · 2,010 words · ~10 min
- Das Modell · GermanC1 Advanced · 1,877 words · ~10 min
- Το Μοντέλο · GreekC1 Advanced · 1,930 words · ~10 min
- La maqueta · SpanishC1 Advanced · 2,055 words · ~10 min
- La Maquette · FrenchC1 Advanced · 2,156 words · ~10 min
- मॉडल · HindiC1 Advanced · 2,222 words · ~10 min
- Maket Itu · IndonesianC1 Advanced · 1,841 words · ~10 min
- Il plastico · ItalianC1 Advanced · 1,956 words · ~10 min
- 模型 · JapaneseC1 Advanced
- De maquette · DutchC1 Advanced · 2,002 words · ~10 min
- Makieta · PolishC1 Advanced · 1,660 words · ~10 min
- A Maquete · PortugueseC1 Advanced · 1,967 words · ~10 min
- Macheta · RomanianC1 Advanced · 1,871 words · ~10 min
- Maket · TurkishC1 Advanced · 1,399 words · ~10 min
- Mô hình · VietnameseC1 Advanced · 2,626 words · ~15 min
- 模型 · ChineseC1 Advanced
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