The sky over Mchinji was low and heavy, like it carried secrets. Dust curled at every footstep, and the air, though quiet, buzzed with anticipation.
The preacher, Reverend Chikondi Banda, once the pride of the village, had begun to walk differently, shoulders no longer bent in humility, but pulled back as if he was carrying something the rest of the world could not see.
His voice had changed, too. Gone was the warmth, the honeyed scripture that used to pour like healing balm over aching hearts. Now, it came jagged and forceful, each word like a stone skipping off cracked ground.
“It is not your sins alone that bind you,” he said one Sunday morning, pausing mid-sermon. His eyes, darker than roasted maize, scanned the room. “It is your silence. It is your watching.”
Nneka Solomon, part-time educator full-time chronicler of small-town life, spends her days navigating the unpredictable waters of academia and her evenings crafting fantastical tales where the local gossip mill becomes a cauldron of magical intrigue and the town square transforms into a bustling marketplace for enchanted wares.
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