The Bell of Crimson Skies

When the bell tolls thirty-two times in a single Sunday, seventeen-year-old Nomvula starts counting. By Thursday it has tolled sixty-seven times. By Monday morning she has a question for her teacher, and she will not let it go unanswered.
Sipho is thirty-nine years old, a former provincial sprinting champion turned schoolteacher in the Thokoza township east of Johannesburg. He is decent, careful, and very good at telling himself he cannot hear things. But Nomvula's question - are you going t...