All the Sinners Bleed

by S.A. Cosby

“The South doesn’t change. You can try to hide the past, but it comes back in ways worse than the way it was before. Terrible ways.”

He filled out a new request and sent it on over for the next board meeting. Titus hoped they would be more receptive to the idea of body cams after their kids had almost had their heads blown off. It wasn’t his proudest moment, but if it was possible to pull something constructive out of this tragedy, then he had to try. It would probably be the only good thing that came out of all this.

reports, he felt like he needed a bath. Ugliness seemed to fill the world like a dark elixir. Titus rubbed his hands across his face.

Titus noticed Austin’s nose was broken in several places. As

how?

As Titus walked his brother to his SUV, Marquis laughed again. “You a real detective. I thought that ol’ boy ain’t had no neck, but you found it,” he said.

“Could be. I could also have monkeys fly out of my butt. Don’t mean I’m gonna start buying bananas for toilet paper,” Titus said. He put his left index finger to his lips.

“I know that voice. They were trying to disguise it, but I’ve heard them before. Shit, it’s Charon, I’ve heard everyone’s voice before,” Titus said as he rubbed his eyes.