The Road to Santa Cruz

Bogomil Rainov was a Bulgarian writer. He wrote social novellas and stories; detective-adventure novels, poems, documentary-essay books, works on aesthetics and the fine arts. Here is his book “Elegy of the Dead Days.”

“The road to Santa Cruz was narrow and blurred by the rain, but the most unpleasant thing was not that. Much worse was that on the thirtieth kilometer—behind a sharp bend—Sleepy Joe was waiting for me with a loaded hunting rifle, which I had absolutely no idea about.”