Maximilian Cartwright

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“Wicked They Say” by Maximilian Cartwright

Submitted to Contest #277

Wicked they called her. A foolish term, lobbed by rubes at that which they do not understand. A condemnation of themselves and testament to their own backwards ignorance. The Jews reviled and persecuted the prophets. What difference, this present generation? Fear was what ruled them. Not the mercy they professed. Not the humility, the meekness, the turning of the other cheek. No. Wicked they called her. All because of a few missing cats. All because of some blood and ground-up bone sprinkled upon a few thresholds. A fetish bag or two of cure...

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