The Paragraph I Promised

I speak pain fluently...

Excerpt from My Manuscript. Working title, “Practice.”

Photo shot by Nneka Julia, Detroit, MI 2021.

The cries to stop are many and muffled. When our cousins pulled me off of you, you ran to the corner, grabbed a champagne bucket, cocked it back like a club. Another pried it from your grip, dragging you into the bedroom. Crying, you screamed that you fucki…