"The Inheritance"

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2021
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Omenana Speculative Fiction Magazine
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The story is set in a future Africa in which at an unknown point in their life, they will be attacked by a disease, known as the manifest, that begins to immediately kill them. They have a pill that gives them temporary relief and time to try to get to a clinic where they can get a shot that may allow them to continue into what may be an afterlife, but the shots effectiveness depends entirely on the lives lived by their ancestors. The protagonist is a young man who has been constantly afraid of the manifest whose girlfriend is certain that she is safe.

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no. 19
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October 31, 2021

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2021 Ferrão, Virgilia [Leonilde Tembo] (b. 1986). “The Inheritance.” Omenana Speculative Fiction Magazine, no. 19 (October 31, 2021). https://omenana.com/2021/10/31/the-inheritance-virgilia-ferrao/

The story is set in a future Africa in which at an unknown point in their life, they will be attacked by a disease, known as the manifest, that begins to immediately kill them. They have a pill that gives them temporary relief and time to try to get to a clinic where they can get a shot that may allow them to continue into what may be an afterlife, but the shots effectiveness depends entirely on the lives lived by their ancestors. The protagonist is a young man who has been constantly afraid of the manifest whose girlfriend is certain that she is safe. Mozambican female author.

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Mozambican female author (b. 1986)

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