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We Will Bring to the Bastion of Sin that Cries Out in Your Prayer by Hammond Diehl

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53% Informative

Hammond Diehl's story is a short novel from the LIGHTSPEED magazine's current issue.

Diehl writes: " We Will Bring Siege to the Bastion of Sin that Cries Out in Your Prayer" Diehl: "I donât have any armor, which was $ 10 , a very used truck, and just enough scholarship money to put me through a year at the diploma mill down the turnpike".

Penitents make pilgrimages to see their saints.

They plot their routes in neat lines, so as not to disturb that godly sense of order that makes the angels smile.

My saintâs path made sense only to her.

She rode shotgun, wagging her antique-white fingers toward this highway exit or that.

With every leg bone, my saint grew taller; with every shoulder and hip bone, broader.

The fire of her halo had stretched into the sky, an impossible tower that seemed to touch the clouds.

Seeds of flame rained down from it, a relentless hellfire of bombs, each too small to do much damage on their own.

A fire was spreading through me, too, a seething heat I had feared, had denied, had nurtured for weeks .

VR Score

53

Informative language

53

Neutral language

27

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

19

Offensive language

offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

detected

Known propaganda techniques

detected

Time-value

medium-lived

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