Devil in Disguise 🎭
You think the devil has horns? He doesn’t. He has a face like yours. Like mine. It has been seven days since we left home. Seven days since I lied to Ma. Told her this was just a vacation, just a chance to breathe, just a chance to get away from the city choking me alive. She didn’t believe me — Ma never does — but she lets me go anyway. She always lets me go. She has this look in her eye, like she knows I am not just going to the next town over. Because I left with a reason. We left with a reason. Something bigger than us. Something based entirely on assumptions. But reasons bleed out like everything else. Yesterday, whatever we were running for — running toward — died in the gutter with the rest of the world. Because yesterday the radio announces Partition. And that is the end of everything. Overnight, the world turned feral. Neighbors turned into marauders with the easy shrug of a shoulder. Shopkeepers who used to smile at me started looking at me like I...