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The Price of Becoming a Villain Is to Quell One’s Kin in a Charade of Pact with The Gods, by Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan

in memory of all the Ndi-Igbo who were shipped into slavery through the Arochukwu Long Juju Slave Route. Beyond the dim, there is a six-foot gully,so audacious & wide, it opens into theoracle’s shrine. The voice ofIbini Ukpabi, fresh-wet,it saturates everyone’sear, it says, Kamalu,the warrior god,quelledtheGorgon forour sake; for our sake,he made sacrifices with his

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The High Priestess Falls in Love with Death, by Ali Trotta

This lesson I learned and            relearned, recitingit like a spell, word after wordto call back my power,to soften the ache,to sort out factfrom fiction,smother the ashes,close the gate after me,go home— leave the garden behind,all its wine and ghosts,            flashes of memoryand myth, hope held too tightly,until the spell turned curse,and secrets scatteredlike a firestorm,

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