@booklet {11396, title = {"The Inheritance"}, howpublished = {Omenana Speculative Fiction Magazine}, volume = {no. 19}, year = {2021}, month = {October 31, 2021}, abstract = {

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.

}, keywords = {Female author, Mozambican author}, url = {https://omenana.com/2021/10/31/the-inheritance-virgilia-ferrao/}, author = {Virgilia [Leonilde Tembo] Ferr{\~a}o (b. 1986)} }