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Submitted to Contest #300
The first time someone called Amara Louis-Jean resilient, it felt like a curse disguised as a blessing.Lieutenant Grover, after morning drills, stood ramrod straight, cap low over steely eyes, the faint trace of a smirk playing at the corner of his mouth. His voice, sharp as steel, cut through the morning fog: “You’ve got grit.”As if she were forged from metal, not memory. As if the way she kept pace without complaint was strength, not survival.She stood tall on the wet gravel of the parade ground, sweat cooling down her back like prayer wat...
Submitted to Contest #299
In the town of Gran Ravin, people took two things very seriously: Carnival costumes and politics. So when Election Day arrived and the ballots were printed with the names of chickens, the town nearly exploded.“Se blag wi?” barked Madame Jonas, clutching her voting card like a weapon. “Why am I being asked to vote for 'Ti Blan,' 'Gwo Kòk,' and—Bon Dye padon mwen—'Pikè Pye'? That chicken don’t even have both feet!”The line outside the community center snaked down the dirt road, past the paté vendor and the domino table. People were hot, angry,...
Submitted to Contest #298
Eugénie never liked quiet. Not the kind that came after a funeral, or the kind that slipped into the room when everyone else went to bed. But this quiet—the kind that waited for her to speak first—was the worst of all.She sat on the edge of her granddaughter’s dorm bed, purse folded neatly on her lap. Her legs didn’t touch the floor anymore. The years had shortened her. But she still held herself like a woman who’d spent her life on her feet.“Your roommate gone?” she asked in Kreyòl.Amara nodded. “For the weekend.”“Good,” Eugénie said. “Less...
Submitted to Contest #297
The sky held its breath like a mother standing at the edge of her child’s silence. Darkness still laid heavy on the mountain, wet with night sweat and unshed rain. The stars above had not blinked in hours, and the trees, old as revolution, listened. They always did.Sanité Bélair sat in the dirt outside the sleeping camp, her legs folded beneath her like roots. Her hands moved slow and sure, threading a bone needle with red cloth pulled from the hem of her old headwrap. That thread had seen weddings and burials, promises and betrayals. And no...
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