Patsy: Winner of the LAMBDA Literary Award 2020

by Nicole Y. Dennis-Benn

“Yuh see dat?” He points to where the sun rises like a newly cracked egg yolk. “Dat’s a certainty. As long as you’re alive, yuh know yuh can depend on seeing it every day. Yuh can’t place hopes on no one else, because everyone g’wan disappoint you. It’s life. Get dat right, or else yuh g’wan end up mad an’ angry fah di rest of yuh life.