Far Horizons: Tales of Sci-Fi, Fantasy and Horror. Issue #13 April 2015 | Page 71

like me. Skin white as snow, lips red as blood, hair
black as ebony.
Like I said, Mom didn’t have all her thread wound
around the spool, hell, she was lucky she could read.
She took the big dirt bath when I was just seven, some
woman trouble, the doctors all whisper VBv