Rot
by Kim.M.Munsamy
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Kim. M. Munsamy is currently completing her Masters in Counselling Psychology at the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein, South Africa. Her work has appeared in The Misbehaving Dead Anthology, The First Line Literary Journal, the F is for Fear Anthology, the Strange Births Magazine, and online journals Ripples in Space, The Fictional Café, and The Mystery Tribune.
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What surprising, fascinating stuff can you tell us about the origin, drafting, and/or final version of “Rot”? I wrote ‘Rot’ almost a month to the day my mother died, driven by fluctuations of grief and normality, wanting to minimize pain by putting it into words.
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