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Click on TITLE for the complete story. “Wayne watched with a sinking feeling as the first red line appeared on the test strip, praying that the second red line, the one that confirms that the test is not defective, would not appear. From that moment, in those two little red lines, this child's reality changed forever.” “It wasn't so much what she said, as the delighted look on her face. The very fact of war and suffering supported her faith.” “The Devil was enormous, taller than the hut. It whirled on its stilts and its black raffia hair whistled in wide circles about it, hissing as it twisted back and forth, reversing directions with unsettling agility.” “I want to stay here in the warmth of the water and gentle wind and garlands of marigolds floating by and holding the precious photos of my friends and family.” THE THINGS WE’VE GONE THROUGH TOGETHER “Judging by his mother’s wounds, every connection, every trace of what we in a more benevolent world would call home was stripped away before he climbed into the ambulance that night, and, with his mother’s death, so too the last trace of family. And yet he smiles.”
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