I awake to a bland, colorless sky and all the lake is still–a soupy grey. Birds dart back and forth and their silent voices join the nothingness of the morning. I’ve awaited the dawn of this day for weeks and now that it’s here the cold fingers of fear grip tightly and courage leaks away like [...]
Fifty-four years ago, late morning, Cheree died at home. Mother was in the bedroom with her and I was instructed to try and reach Daddy who was with Uncle Everett. They had gone to pick out a grave at Woodland Cemetery, a few blocks away. But Uncle Everett didn’t have a telephone at his home. [...]
The haunting is always there, lurking in the backstreets of my thoughts. Will she make it till the end of April when she goes into Collier County Jail? Or will I wake one night to the insistent ringing of my iPhone, knowing before I answer that calamity has come? Most women I know struggle against [...]
