Best Debut Short Stories 2024 by Kendall Storey

Author:Kendall Storey
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781646222360
Publisher: Catapult
Published: 2024-10-24T00:00:00+00:00

THE DAY AUNTIE tell me ah get through with meh visa, I thought it was ah joke she was making. That time, Patricia, D, and Pantin, and I started hanging heavy. Pantin just ask meh to be his gyal, after months of busting style on him, I finally give him a chance. CXC exams was right around the corner, so dem teachers ain’t have time to study we.

Every Friday we ducking school to go river-lime up Caura. Oh gosh boy, those was the days.

I told Auntie I ain’t want to come up America in a big, big frenzy. I see she packing the maroon grip with pepper sauce and tamarind balls she make for Mummy, unlike she, meh tears was stinging my eyes in protest; is then I realize this thing serious. I real beg she to tell Mummy I want to stay. She raise she voice not too high because I never hear she yell. But for some reason, she felt like she had to that time. She pull my arms and cautioned me to sit on the bed.

When she eyes started to glare-up like when you watch the sun for too long, or like when you unexpectedly bite the piece of bird-pepper yuh forget yuh put in the chow. That wetness gathered dey like pothole puddles after rain—collecting mosquitoes. Right in the corner of she eye. Stagnant. In an unusually softer tone now, softer than pink cotton candy melting in yuh mouth, holding my slick face, she started to plead:

Yuh mother misses you. Ah done already keep you longer than we had talk about. It was just until she catch she self. When yuh mother first left because yuh father say yuh is not he child. And the ten-day-work wasn’t coming fast enough. Ah tell she to go to America and ah go mine yuh for a few years until she could send for yuh. Them few years turn into ten years. How that go look if I tell the lady ah keeping she child? Eh, Crissy? Yuh ain’t miss yuh mother? Yuh only hearing she voice by phone? How yuh think yuh mother go feel? I don’t want to hear nothing else. Yuh going to meet yuh mother. And that’s that!

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