They were unknown in their large metropolitan city as Ariel and Joshua, a boisterously quiet couple who kept mostly to themselves now. They began as two lost souls on the garbage pile of the unwanted. She showed him how to get high and he liked it. She had always been high and did not knowContinueContinue reading “Embers to Embers by Coletha Albert”
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Ms. Clara’s Family by Coletha Albert
The floorboards of the abandoned parish in Oakhaven still bore the black enamel scorch marks from fifty years ago. That night, six men in gray robes had locked ten-year-old Clara in the center of the subterranean chamber. They burned salt and dried nightshade, chanting long, guttural incantations to drag something cruel up through the earthContinueContinue reading “Ms. Clara’s Family by Coletha Albert”
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