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searingedrockThe shoe
With the shoe in hand I started walking toward the house. The man stood silently behind like a ghost and walked backward step by step. I never saw him again. It was true what he said about the snakes though, they came, every night, one black and one white, and died on my front step. I was careful never to let the children play out on the porch after seven.
On this island everyone knows about Obeah, black magic. The Hindus have Kali puja. If your lover has met someone new, they have been the victim of obeah. Someone got a raise at work, he has been visiting the obeah man. If you are sick and want to get better you take a bush bath. I didn't visit an obeah man, he visited me.
I don't regret it. My daughter is healed. Life goes on as before. Except for the snakes...and the pints of milk I leave on our doorstep every morning. I must never forget that or they may take my daughter away. I heard about the man (a carpenter) who wanted a very expensive house and they gave it to him, only after did they say that the price was his son. That must never happen.
The shoe remains in the locked cupboard; it is one of many secrets. We are many faces and one, and we put them away in cupboards at night; it is like that here.
With the shoe in hand I started walking toward the house. The man stood silently behind like a ghost and walked backward step by step. I never saw him again. It was true what he said about the snakes though, they came, every night, one black and one white, and died on my front step. I was careful never to let the children play out on the porch after seven.
On this island everyone knows about Obeah, black magic. The Hindus have Kali puja. If your lover has met someone new, they have been the victim of obeah. Someone got a raise at work, he has been visiting the obeah man. If you are sick and want to get better you take a bush bath. I didn't visit an obeah man, he visited me.
I don't regret it. My daughter is healed. Life goes on as before. Except for the snakes...and the pints of milk I leave on our doorstep every morning. I must never forget that or they may take my daughter away. I heard about the man (a carpenter) who wanted a very expensive house and they gave it to him, only after did they say that the price was his son. That must never happen.
The shoe remains in the locked cupboard; it is one of many secrets. We are many faces and one, and we put them away in cupboards at night; it is like that here.
