Ameliese Clifton

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“Daughters of the Sun” by Ameliese Clifton

Submitted to Contest #232

Seated on the roof of our old house, I watch as the sun begins to stagger to the horizon. In a few minutes, when the night emerges, omnipotent and inevitable, the family will gather to hear Nan’s stories of the sun.             A crowd of us will huddle together, packed tightly like Uncle Jack’s cigarettes. The kids, though many of us are no longer children, sit on the floor, cross-legged on the dingy carpet, while the adults squeeze onto various decades-old lounges, chairs, an...

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