The Revisioners by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton

Author:Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781640092594
Publisher: Counterpoint
Published: 2019-08-20T16:00:00+00:00

WHEN I GET TO THE HOUSE, KING IS ALREADY ASLEEP. The nurse says it’s been a rough night. Grandma was out of sorts most of the day looking for me.

I’m prepared for the worst going up the stairs, but she is smiling when I walk in. I tell her about Hazel and the girls and how well the visit went, but then the reason I was there instead of my mother stirs the grief that’s been building. I sit on her bed and let it all out.

“She’s fine now, but it could have gone the other way,” I say. “As much as we’ve been through, my mama’s the only person in this world who’s always there for me. And if she’s not here, I don’t have nobody.”

“You have me,” she says. “I know she’s going to be fine; she’s a tough lady, but you have me too.” She pulls me into her for an embrace. “I’ll be saying a prayer for her tonight,” she says as she rubs my back, and she shifts in the bed to reach over for her rosary.

Sure enough I hear her chanting as I walk back to my own room:

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