I fumbled with the button of my turquoise blouse and stared past the face of the older man sitting on the bed. My heart beat came fast and I couldn’t breath. “Let me get a drink,” he said. I was grateful for the pause. The night’s events played over in my mind. My daughter’s voice […]
Now I understand that this is going to work just like it said.
Testing this to see where it goes
The tears reached her collarbone and slid beneath the gray stripped hard cotton shirt given to her as her cleaning uniform at the rehabilitation center. She imagined if someone loved her, they would have undone the buttons to that ugly shirt and drank the tears from her flesh. But no one did and no one did.
She raised her hand to her temples and pressed back determined strands of hair.
The children weren’t coming.
“The wages of all sin is death!” The preacher’s voice boomed from the speakers, bounced off of the white walls and stained glassed windows and slammed into all five of Italiza’s senses. She could smell the taunting pungency of it, taste its acrid beckoning, feel its cement-rough caress and most certainly hear the sweet grating […]