And She Would Bear a Son

~ A Love Story ~

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Her eyes were closed, his open, and between the woman and the man, ghost screams rose, and like thin long birds that break their beaks against cracked mirrors, flapped around, then settled to roost in the disquiet of an abandoned citadel of silence. Both lay at the edge of an empty space, their grief-seared backs towards each other. Bodies held taut as though the tiniest movement would hurtle…