Short Story – Killing a shadow

Kambangane pinched his throat as soon as Zakueeua’s grass-thin shadow swallowed his image on the white sand. Then he wrote his friend’s name in the sand and drooled slimy saliva over it.

Immediately, Zakueeua stretched a skin-and-bone handshake, but Kambangane clenched his fist, as thoughts of Zakueeua stepping on his shadow choked him with anger.

Suddenly, a stabbing pain flared on his swollen forehead, exactly where Zakueeua had stomped on his shadow.