10.26.2022 - By Escape Artists Foundation
* Author : Malon Edwards
* Narrator : Mandaly Louis-Charles
* Host : Sara S. Messenger
* Audio Producers : Eric Valdes and Pria Wood
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First appeared in Shimmer Magazine. Read it here!
Rated R
This episode is a part of our Tales from the Vaults series, in which a member of PodCastle’s staff chooses a backlist episode to highlight and discuss. This week’s episode was chosen by associate editor Sara S. Messenger.
“The Half Dark Promise” originally aired as PodCastle 387
The Half Dark Promise
by Malon Edwards
The first thing Bobby Brightsmith told me when I moved to the South Side of Chicago from La Petite Haïti with Manmi was to run like a scalded dog if I ever saw zonbi la in the half dark on the way home from school.
See, when Bobby was eight years old, a little girl and a little boy were snatched from the half dark not far from home. They were never seen again. Bobby said because of that little girl and that little boy, timoun yo in Chicago now walk home from school in groups, in the half dark just before nightfall. The half dark comes fast this time of year.