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Veronica Fitzhugh

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The Voice, The Phoenix, The Pendulum, The Desert, The Dust Of History And Oratory

Weekly Contest #80

“You’re nothing. You will always be nothing.” That’s what they told me. That’s what they told me. Nothing. Anything. The thing. Not a person. Not a spirit. Not a core. So, I sought to be somebody. Anybody. The body. The gut, the heart, the mind. The voice. We were never voiceless. You couldn’t, wouldn’t hear us. Our tones against your eardrums were safe to be ignored till our war drums became more dangerous — — with more clarity and less distance. Then, you had no other recourse other than taking our chapped hands and leading us to...

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