LETTER FROM THE DEAD

FROM

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ed as he tuned to see his mum p

hands round her son’s neck cre

to his hair in a b

r” Moses sai

her son pissed, Moses loved

?” she asked noticin

ote it during our logic

moved towards th

wanted, so he moved

hands together with hers, she looked into her son’s ey

mplex irony. Born to a reverend father was another frust

something better than the harsh living she had and so met with

ow the father of her child, they called the

oath to father Aaron never to l

Moses found himself in the Manson’

m” he replied forcin

nd he was not ready to d

type and was not ready for t

that early”

f calmly on the

reached out for her ponytail admiring it in a

me last week” she added nodding her

tiful… looks good on you”

id holding his face and

ore mum” he

ile” she said as she smi

man now” he said

said mockingly standing up

next fifteen minutes” she add

ing desk as he closed the door

, he used his hands to wipe his face to be sure of what he w

eld it upside down turnin

ble as he made for the bathroom

ection on the mirror, he took another splash of water and applied it o

om and sat quietly on his chair, he pi

trying to believe he actually saw n

s mum asking him who

y as he picke

I need to take a break he said resting bac

when he

o door, he jumped off from his chair im

g here!” he shoute

ide my room!” he continue

as she moved slowly round the room ma

Moses asked visibly angry as h

he chair as he obs

that ran from home placing my whole family

ts and distancing myself from family a

battle of words betwe

u see your mum Ky

out with a guy”

m and scanned the whole room wi

here” Moses continued

door open?” he cont

ered locking the d

Kyle spencer for more than two years, she was th

a man that was never the kind of lady Kyle was,

ide in a mixture of awe and terror, reality began to dawn before him, the odds

ly, a profound sense of

ight of a prematurely extinguished existenc

ge of help in an unfinished business, beads of sweat gather on his

her in class today

appened to her? Why the sudden disapp

and dirty, he noticed the scares on her body as if one who just surv

did you get here Kyl

e stood up and walked thro

ted as he jumped fr