Factor Four Magazine Issue 3: October 2018 by Richard Flores IV

Author:Richard Flores IV
Language: eng
Format: epub

The Red Goddess

by Melanie Rees

My Red Goddess first died in front of me when I was six. The tiny wooden men with red heads brought her to me. She sat on the dry lawn and cackled a hearty laugh that set my heart ablaze.

"What's your name?" she asked.

"Mack," my voice quivered with excitement.

"I'm Kardla." Her cheeks flushed as rosy as the sunset. Her hair flickered like wisps of candle light in the breeze. And before I could tell Kardla how much I adored her, Dad approached waving a hessian sack in his hands.

"Get inside!" yelled Dad.

"I’ll return," she whispered to me.

Return? Where are you going?

"They fear me." She crackled upon the grass. "And they should."

I don’t.

"I know..." her voice trailed off as Dad held the sack over her amber head, choking her.

"Dad, what did you do?"

He grabbed the scruff of my t-shirt and dragged me away from the sooty black mark that was once my beautiful goddess.

"Mack, are you insane!" he yelled.

I guessed love was a kind of insanity, but Dad never understood.

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