The Devil’s Foot: Among Savages

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Title: The Devil’s Foot: Among Savages
Author: gardnerhill
Word Count: 60
Rating: G
Warning: None.
Summary: Dr. Leon Sterndale didn’t specify, did he?

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Some Cornishmen doused coastal warning lights to lure ships to ruin, to salvage the wrecks.

I cannot marry my love because of this land’s outdated laws.

A man poisons his siblings – murders my darling – over a little money.

I must return to central Africa, to brave hunters and clever weavers and beautiful children. I have lived too long among savages.

Comments

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

A very neat reversal. You make a good point.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

All those Thrilling Adventure tales that sold like hotcakes in Victorian times were neat propaganda that helped whitewash the horrors perpetrated by colonial policies. (As one Twitter comment said about a black protest, "If you're really upset about looting y'all better close the British Museum.")