Iron Veve's Kiss
A black butterfly perches on my thumb, wings fanning the scent of rot and jasmine.
“Bon (Good).” I step toward Mamá Marisol’s bubbling ajíaco (healing stew), the pot brimming with okra and crab claws. “You taught me ghosts starve without fear, non (right)?”
Marisol clutches her medalla (saint medal), the silver Virgin Mary glinting. Her hands still bear burns from last summer, when Esteban’s men torched her herb garden. “Oye, niña (Listen, girl),” she whispers, “this is darker than *Papa Legba’s* tricks.”
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