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Board Administrator Username: mjm Post Number: 3944 Registered: 11-1998 |
Honorable Mention A Question of Lives Steve Williams Impressions from ‘Carnivale’ episode 1 The dead kitten springs from his hands into the empty boxcar. He walks by the tracks, pauses by his mother rocking in the canvas shanty. Her hands cradle a dust-wrapped child to her grime shirt stretched over her breast as the gray skin of her face is taut on cheekbones below soup bowl eye-sockets crusted with yesterday’s gruel. He reaches for her bundle then steps back, hears the feline hiss of devil names spit from his mother’s lips. he knew the baby was dead, stares at them through fingernails framed in slate ash, then turns to vertebrate boxcars, climbs into the corner next to the sleeping cat. |
