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In the shed, boxes of photos…

A naked photograph of the oldest daughter in the very same room we were standing in, an uneven backdrop hanging on the wall. I looked at the floor & saw the same gray backdrop rolled into a flat cylinder, lying on the dusty floor. There were dozens of photographs in the box—of various children, some naked, some posed in sexual positions, a few w/damp crying faces.

“He shot her first.” The 7yo appeared from nowhere at the bedside, making me drop my camera…She stared at her sister’s body as the littlest ghost came up to me, raising her arms in the air to be lifted. “She was asleep when he did it. It didn’t hurt, though. Mine didn’t.”

I figure I would ask since no one else was around. “Was it Jude that shot you?”

“It was Daddy.” She looked right at me…

What was left of her face was speckled with residue & buckshot burns. Markets 90-145 indicated Elisabeth Montano and the pieces of her spread around her well-kept kitchen.

8: My companion in the pink pajamas appeared in the kitchen & watched her mother & sister on the floor. She never moved as I continued my work, photographing the bodies & the blood splatter.

Clinically describes the wounds & gore of each of the eight bodies at the Montano scene…

First sentence:

The little girl’s breath smelled of blood and gunpowder.

The man in my apt now was named Irvin. Over two years dead, who had lost his wife & son to a car accident.

Rita has posole with Mrs Santillanes

In Gallup there was a genuine famine of empathy & a lifetime of greed to guide it. The streets were deadly for our relatives. If they didn’t meet their ends in Gallup they could punch their ticket in any of the surrounding desolate communities on the reservation.

Horrible story of the boy who grew up to be the killer: dad Viet vet, rage, killed Indian worker on farm with ax, stabbed his mother to death then shot self; taken to aunties for four days, uncle didn’t want him; to orphanage with pedophile priest making visits in night