[…] yellow eye, no forgiveness is found, but each ancestral—and ancestral-adjacent—ghost is given their voice. Sometimes they speak over each other or against each other. Some accuse. Some grieve. There are horrors and beauties. Gravestones […]
[…] in tattoos they didn’t choose but are used to living with—as if they wrote the past all over themselves as they lived it but unwittingly let the ink sink under their skin. Now it […]
[…] particularly interesting way—none of Butler’s characters dares to question whether miracles are possible, but they remain divided over who truly rules over the heavens and whether different powers can be trusted. Out of the […]
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[…] shore. Walk into the water until it covers you, lift your feet, and recite a known prayer over yourself. Twice. Any known prayer will do. If you come from ocean, taste salt. If you […]
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[…] her knees. Are those Navajos? One is wearing a jacket with Navajo Nation Fair on the back. I look over her mourners, hoping my prayer will be apt. What did Becky believe? What do her gathering […]
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[…] trucker’s cap is grease coated, and his pant leg is half tucked into a white tube sock. Over the Thanksgiving dinner he offers to pray: Thank you, God, for the abundance of divine providence, […]