CAROLINE MUIRURI

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“Water Is Thicker Than Blood ” by CAROLINE MUIRURI

Submitted to Contest #79

Keziah stood by the cooker motionless. She was making some porridge for her mother. If you could see her, you could tell that her mind was far. But dutifully she stirred the pot and with every motion of the spoon in the liquid her mind teleported to a time when betrayal was a word in the dictionary, and she hadn’t looked it up. When she was 14 years old, she had a crush. Unlike most of the young girls in the village, Keziah had not yet experienced that pit in the stomach that one gets when they spot a charming boy. Yet during the Summe...

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