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Weekly Contest #352
Celia wasn’t sure why anyone would knock on her door at this hour, so when she first heard the tap–tap-tapping, she ignored it. Maybe it was the wind. Maybe it was a group of bemused children, upon hearing that she was a hoodoo woman and a heathen, making bets about who would dare disturb her, and then, once discovered, running away from her door, shrieking gleefully. Maybe it was a dead limb from the peach tree in her yard. Though once thriving and fertile, it now stood rotting, sticky knots of sugared-over black sap stuck to its trunk. No...
Weekly Contest #351
Sister? God has no worse creation than those men.I know that ain’t you. She’s coming around. Can’t be cause you dead.She’s staggered. Let’s try again.Who’s talking?She’s been breathing in the dust. Mama?Part of the building fell on her but they got her out.Can’t be Mama neither. They bombed the church?She been dead longer than you, Sister.On my count. I ain’t in the house no more, is it?Come on. Again.Where am I?They bombed everything there except the saved souls.Smell like bleach. In your son Jesus’ name we ask for healing, Father-God.I ca...
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