In The Woods Somewhere (or Stories Never Leave) by Victor Forna Gods Slap Those Who Summon Them. We shouldn’t have been there — but we were, hiding behind the kola-nut tree, peering into the silver night, parents worried over our empty beds back home, and that’s why we can tell you today, beside this fire, how the old god was summoned from underneath the earth. Pa Yamba, who had changed his name to Peter — To Ruben. Don’t interrupt me. But we’re both telling the story. Whatever.
