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The Professor removed his glasses, pinching the bridge of his nose. Swallowing hard, his fingers nervously handled the letter. He smelled it and recognised the delicate handwriting. It was dated for that day. Sliding the white sheet out, he read:

… absence is the best medicine for forgetting… but the best way to forget forever is to see daily…
—Anna Akhmatova

Below him, he could see the rugged land turn to frozen sea. Black cranes lurched drunkenly on the derelict docks, warehouses falling off the shore. A criss-cross of clear blue sword-slashes ran between endless plates of ice. Their pure, flat surfaces scraped by the wind, forming a stiff, white crust over the Baltic. Every now and then, a rusting red ship would cut a channel through the sheets en route to Denmark, Sweden, or Norway. He imagined some seasoned captain at their helm, steering cargo westwards, guided as much by his nose as the 1950s navigation equipment that bleeped on the oil-splattered screen in his cabin. There he stood, the pilot, riding the waves, pushing on through the gulf towards a point where the sea met the sky in a rapture of crushed turquoise.

Further out at sea, the sky became thick and overcast. Tom’s gaze followed the plane’s wingtip as it passed over one small island after another, until at last these isolated rock outcrops, stretching toward Scandinavia, were swallowed by the crash of hungry waves. The aircraft pierced the mocha meniscus of the cloud line. Engines accelerated at full throttle. With the jet’s roar throbbing in his ears, he twisted his neck one last time to see the lights of St Petersburg slowly disappear in a warm glow over the eastern horizon. Leaning back in his seat, he felt thankful to have been present at the birth of Russia’s new revolution. ‘And now to liberate the West’, he swore to himself.

Konets

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Fenek Solère writes novels in the tradition of the New Right. Following his critically acclaimed debut novel The Partisan (2014), he has published articles at Counter-Currents/North American New Right and the New European Conservative websites and has been interviewed at Radix.

Copyright

Copyright © 2017 by Counter-Currents Publishing

All rights reserved

Cover design by Kevin Slaughter

Cover Image: Yevgeny Vuchetich, The Motherland Calls,

Volgograd, Russia

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Published in the United States by

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Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-940933-29-0

Paperback ISBN: 978-1-940933-30-6

E-book ISBN: 978-1-940933-31-3

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Solère, Fenek, 1972-author.

Title: Rising / by Fenek Solère.

Description: San Francisco : Counter-Currents Publishing Ltd., [2016]

Identifiers: LCCN 2016008873 (print) | LCCN 2016020765 (ebook) | ISBN 9781940933290 (hardcover : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781940933306 (pbk. : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781940933313 (e-book) | ISBN 9781940933313 (E-book)

Subjects: LCSH: British--Russia (Federation)--Fiction. | Political fiction.

Classification: LCC PS3619.O43253 R57 2016 (print) | LCC PS3619.O43253 (ebook) | DDC 813/.6--dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016008873