Jeannette de Beauvoir: All Their Blood
Image: Unsplash, downloaded (https://unsplash.com/photos/TdVGcGkb6C8) 7-2.2022. 48 Hours My aunt died in a cellar under the old City Hall. I don’t know how she’d come to be there or what exactly they did to her: there were rumors but by the time I was born they were almost all dead, the ones who could have told me. She had run a secret printing press, so perhaps I have words in my blood, after all—a dubious gift without her strength and fortitude, without her faith that it al