Curdle Creek: A Novel by Yvonne Battle-Felton

Author:Yvonne Battle-Felton [Battle-Felton, Yvonne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, African American & Black, Women, Horror, Gothic
ISBN: 9781250362025
Google: f8fpEAAAQBAJ
Amazon: B0CQHJG76H
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
Published: 2024-10-15T05:00:00+00:00

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I won’t look up at her so I just stare at her fingers. The way her nails click slightly when she taps them together. They are short and strong. They left dents in my wrist. I wonder if Mother Opal has them too. I should tell her I was there. Heard her and Mother Opal. But asking questions is just what always gets the girl killed in the books the library’s always displaying for Ordinance Awareness Month. The heroine’s always some Inspector Suzie–type cozying up to the killer talking about I know you killed him and I can prove it, just before she ends up at the bottom of the Creek or holed up in a mineshaft or just everyday dead. No, thank you. I close my lips tight so nothing I can’t take back slips out.

“I hope your sisters aren’t as hardheaded as you are,” she says. She grins like she really hopes they are. I picture her pinching their slender arms, making heart-shaped welts on their soft brown skin. Mother’s never been much of a mother. More a fickle friend I could trust from time to time. I’m grown and I still can’t look at her without shaking. She’s prone to turn her back on me. Again.

“What will be your first ordinance as Head Charter Mother?”

“We’ll just have to wait and see, won’t we?” she says. And she giggles like a schoolgirl.

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