![]() ![]() Black robes encompass formality, and their objectivity shows no sign of emotion. While the floor is seething red, the stained wooden tables divide the judge’s seat from everyone else. The symbols of the Crown lay hanging: the Queen and country flag form the background. It appears the carpeted floors are kept relatively clean for the dirt that enters. It is sterile and hosts normal temperature to give it the godly touch of neutrality. That day in 1864, among a modest crowd drawn into the spectacle, five honest men hang. With the river’s strength flowing behind them, the water scripts its forever return downstream only to come back. Men aiding the men of property unshackle my ancestral relatives and lead them to a wooden structure. War for “Whites” means humiliation to satisfy power through the rigours of sacrificial violence. Suited as predatory capitalists on a mission, manifest destiny manages to migrate across fictitious borders on its way to harvest flesh. Only one body desires to consume itself in darkness overnight. Two worlds overlap, drifting sullenly between clouds and shadows. The colony is unwilling to share fire Creative writing contest winner (non-fiction)īy Russel Samuel Myers Ross 9 min read Share
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