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Unsacred Sunday
EATMS//Story Reclamation Series 01
The Chapel Below the Mall
by Eloise Yarvin
(Is not, and has not been connected to any current or past administration.)
Greeting fellow Spittersâopen your hymnals to todayâs heresyâŚ
Todayâs subversion comes from a file marked REDACTED and a girl they tried to controlâŚ
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The chapel was hidden beneath the mall.
Not architecturallyâspiritually. Its ceiling tiles bore the ghosts of retail signage, and the altar had once been a perfume kiosk. But someone had lined the walls with red candles, melted to nothing but stumps and soft wax prayers. She walked quietly. The air buzzed. Somewhere above, escalators ferried shoppers between floors of curated want.
But here, below, the scripture had changed.
One book was split open on the counter. The ink bled when she touched itâreal ink, not projection. Each verse had been underlined by different hands. Different rages. Some had scrawled rebuttals in the margins:
> âBlessed are the meek,â
> someone had crossed outâ
> âuntil they remember their fire.â
Behind the kiosk was a cracked mirror with a note taped to its glass:
> âLook until you see someone they told you didnât exist.â
She stared. Not at her face. But at her stance. Her spine didnât slouch the way it had in the Ward. Her mouth looked less memorized. She didnât know the next line. That was the miracle.
And then she heard itâa whisper through the vent:
> âThey made our gods in their image. So we made new ones.â
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She walked out of the ward. We walk with her now.
The story lives where they tried to erase us.
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Support the fiction theyâd rather burn. Each sat keeps the signal alive.
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