Chapter Seventeen: Coming Home Eight months later, when I brought my baby home from the hospital, waiting in the living room of our house was a party. Stevie was there. Momma had gone back to California. Jessie was there with Willa and Kathleen Lucinda, their baby girl. Cleo was there with Jaques, her paramour as... Continue Reading →
Lucinda – Chapter Sixteen
I knew for sure that this time I had lost my best friend and the only love of my life. I spent the next few weeks crying all the time. I couldn’t eat and I couldn’t sleep. I guess it was around the time that I started to get sick that Grammy wrote to momma. She must have because soon enough I got a postcard from her stating simply, “I’m coming home.”