Baby Talk

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While they are standing online waiting to jump into the Double Dutch ropes, I overhear twelve year old Margie Golden tell Sarah Lundy about abortion. “What’s abortion?” I ask. “Never mind,” Margie says, tossing her fat braids that always hit her in her fat face when she tries to make her fat body jump. “What’s […]

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Writing My Way Out of the Past

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When I was a child, I signed my granddaddy’s Social Security checks for him. He never learned to read or write, and he never attended any type of school. As the grandson of slaves from Georgia and South Carolina, all my granddaddy knew of the world was the tiny corner of northeast Georgia where we […]

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Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation

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I ask Luke to please control the monkey. The monkey is a puppet on Luke’s hand—a floppy fabric imitation of the animal with bits of pink silk for the insides of the ears—and he is ambushing the other children. Luke sneaks up behind a girl who is coloring and grabs her face with the monkey. She screams. […]

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