A Madness So Discreet

by Mindy McGinnis

I knew the fam’ly, knew all their ’ouses from years of ’elpin’ me mum cart their dirty sheets ’ome, never knowing I was to leave a blood spot on one someday meself. “So I found me way into the bedrooms of all ’is menfolk. One by one they all ’ad me, each unbeknownst to the other and me makin’ noises like it’s me first toss each time. Them so proud of themselves, so ’appy to have a young, pretty thing moanin’ underneath ’em, the whole time I’m givin’ back to them what their own relation delivered unto me. From ’is cousins and uncles and grandfather, right down to the youngest brother, who only got but a minute or two of pleasure from it, I ’ad ’em all. And their pride will keep ’em from the doctor, and their sores will keep ’em from their wives, and their cocks will rot right off and they’ll be wiped from the face o’ the earth. And it’s Nell O’Kelly that’s done it to ’em.”