There is in the Water by Cassie Premo Steele

There is in the Water What happened here the history I mean thismean thing there right there the bridgewhere they were lynched and who elsewas there and this is always here Ito make them mean something and howcan inanimate objects say what all thismeans, you ask, and I say you...

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Island She would cry every time we put her in the carriage. That was all right, and the way I had to lean sideways to...

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