The Pale Dance

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The Pale Dance

The smell of wet chalk and old blood hung in the air of the ancestral compound, a scent that clung to the back of Adaeze Garba’s throat. She sat on the threshold, her left hand resting on her knee, though it did not obey her. It tapped a rhythm against her denim jeans, a slow, deliberate beat that matched no song she knew. The dry wind cracked the clay walls of the house, sending fine dust into...

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