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"I hate you!" I whispered fiercely, trying to stab hilare of my eyes "You think you are safe, don't you? You think a doctor can't be

punished--but God has sent the black angel of his wrath to see that you and your sister are punished for the evil you have done!"

He froze on the spot and stared at lared back He closed the door to his bedrooo to visit your grandmother every day, don't you?" His face looked troubled, but he kept his voice soft and kind "You have to learn not to believe everything you hear Sometimes people tell lies"

"Devil's spawn!" I hissed "Seed planted in the wrong soil to create Devil's issue"

This tihtly it hurt, and he shook ain! You are never to mention any of this to your mother If you do, burn your bottoain And the next time you see that woman next door, you remind her that it was she who planted all the seeds and started the flowers growing Watch her face when you speakand then guess who is the evil one"

I shrank back, didn't want to hear what he had to say I ran off, bu an expensive lamp that toppled to the floor

In asping for breath Inpain thatto shut off my air

Felt like toothpaste being squeezed froht as a coil Painfully I rolled over on e fat tears slid off my face to wet et spanked for ten years old was too old for such babydoings

Did I want to be ten, or eighty? Who wasin the attic, laughing, laughing,et away even after he was put in the ground

Moone and left un

Fell asleep and tossed ar

ound The little boy kept right on crying as the old man hurled him in the trashcan so soon I'd be du

For sinners of sinners, those born of incest, they had to be punished too, evenin the trashcan

Rage of the Righteous

The rain came down like bullets fired by God I stood at the back s and watched the rain batter the faces of thosenaked and sinful I waited for Jory to come home and look for me