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Welcome, my sweet child, come in, close the door, look over here. I have everything you ever wanted, and some other things you didn’t know you needed. I have hierbas for all the aches, and veladoras that smell like sin. And I have La Santa Muerte statues, if you are willing to make a deal. I have clay to make you taller, and beautiful, and smart. And I have paint to make your skin a canvas, to hide your bruises, draw a dream over your scars. Or you can take a honey jar to drown your lover’s heart, make him harmless and bland. I have fire, my child, to burn the voices, the whispers that haunt you and keep you up at night. Yes, you can have all you may wish for as long as you can pay for it. But hey, you better buy something, if you ever want to leave.
Abigail Guerrero is a Latina, aroace, and ESL author from Mexico. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Bloodless: An Anthology of Blood-free horror and All Existing Literary Magazine. You can find her on Twitter as: @_gail_guerrero
Image credit: Foremostwolves on Reddit
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