Madewell Brown
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Rick Collignon. Madewell Brown
Madewell Brown
South Cairo
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Madewell Brown
A Santo in the Image of Cristóbal García
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She leaned back against the counter and twisted her head around to look up at Obie. “Rain and sleet was falling that morning,” she said. “But even so, you could feel the heat come washing across the river. And the sounds those poor animals made. Cows and lamed horses and old hogs screaming like crazy women. And if that wasn’t bad enough, a few months later the floods came.”
In the spring of that same year, she told him, the river rose ten feet over its banks and flooded nearly all of South Cairo. Whole houses were dragged away by the current, and those that weren’t were left bloated with mud and water and a white mold that got deep into your lungs and sickened whoever breathed it. River rats swarmed everywhere, and coils of water moccasins hung from tree limbs. It took two months for the water to finally get back to where it belonged, and by then most everyone who lived near the river was gone.
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