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RE: SHORT FICTION - When the Levee Breaks
This one is really good! The spiritual symbolism draws you in. God purging old ways perhaps. I see the plight of the black man. The story perhaps a metaphor for their flight from the south in the 1950s.
Thank you, glad the symbolism appealed. Although the story originates from the floods of the 30's, as I was writing it it did take on more of a metaphor for the black struggle in general. That is how it felt, so I went with it. It's there, subtly I guess.
I’m from Chicago so the story of black migration is close. I grew up with the Chicago blues and Howln Wolf.
I had a big blues faze in my some time ago, and predominantly Chicago blues. Still have a soft spot for it.