Status Updates From Brown Girl in the Ring

The heaviness of her loss in her heart hadn't eased, but there was room there for humour, too.

Rudy cared nothing for love or loss. What would she be if she became his creature? Hesitantly she said to the Jab-Jab, "I can't keep giving my will into other people hands no more, ain't? I have to decide what I want to do for myself." No answer. It wasn't going to tell her.

She felt his grip warm on her skin and looked into the eyes of this man she had loved beyond sense or reason. She thought of her grandma's body lying there with its head broken in, looking at Mi-Jeanne's cooling body lying beside them on the ground.

"Yes, I mad", she answered him, firmly pulling her grip from his grasp.

Mi-Jeanne "Man, even your own baby does cry when it see you coming."

Baby screamed, then started sobbing as though his heart were broken.

Oh Tony. No no no no no no no.

Oh....Betty!