PodCastle 387: The Half Dark Promise - a podcast by Escape Artists, Inc

* Author : Malon Edwards

* Narrator : Mandaly Louis-Charles

* Host : Dave Thompson

* Audio Producer : Peter Wood

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The Half Dark Promise

by Malon Edwards

The first thing Bobby Brightsmith told me when I moved to the South Side of Chicago from La Petite Haïti with Manmi was to run like a scalded dog if I ever saw zonbi la in the half dark on the way home from school.

See, when Bobby was eight years old, a little girl and a little boy were snatched from the half dark not far from home. They were never seen again. Bobby said because of that little girl and that little boy, timoun yo in Chicago now walk home from school in groups, in the half dark just before nightfall. The half dark comes fast this time of year.

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