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JB Wemyss

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She Had Feathers

Submitted to Contest #274

The greatest truth about my tribe is that we are a fearful people. Our chiefs and elders teach us to make that fear our strength—performing the rituals, and weaving our greatest triumphs from the familiar shadows cast over us all. Fear is benevolence, and fear is safety. Fear makes us who we are. I was a child by the fire, shivering to the sharp-fanged creatures conjured in winding spirals of smoke rising through thick forest canopy. My wide eyes absorbed everything—the must nots, the shall nots, the fear, the pain—and sometimes the bite of ...

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