Fiction: Bruises by Soidenet Gue
Photo Source: Wikimedia Commons Ten-year-old Zacharie felt his face was out of shape when he joined his stolid father for breakfast on Saturday in his mango-stained Caribbean green T-shirt. He thought the dark purple bruises on his upper right jaw would have disappeared by now, but they had not. Not only were the bruises visible, but his mouth still hurt whenever he chewed or bit down hard. Sometimes it felt like he had bitten a sizable glob of his inner jaw. He assumed he was in the...