Picture Completion: Malabar Nightshade tags: distance

This was her story: “Spilovoy and Trirykhov are eating alugbati at our father’s house. They are Russian and have come to work at the sugar mill in Danao. Trirykhov says that his name means three-horned and raises his hand to splay three of his fingers against his forehead, palm forward.” Notes: 1.) They were sounded them out to me this way: spee-lee-boy tree-ring-off Each with acute stresses on the third syllable. I voice the names that way as well. 2.) Her brother would later own a bust of Jose …