Sleeping on Paul’s Mattress

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Sleeping on Paul’s Mattress
is a work of fiction by Brenda Sutton Rose
originally published in Mobius: A Journal of Social Change

From my crouching position under the house, I watch a hearse back into the yard and stop right short of the front porch. It’s late in the day, and the sun is bleeding red across the sky as far as I can see. Four men with fleshy faces climb out of the limousine of death. They stand tall, stretch, straighten their ties, and flip dandruff from their dark sui...