The Peerless Four by Victoria Patterson

Author:Victoria Patterson [Patterson, Victoria]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781619022645
Publisher: Counterpoint Press
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

I began to write and ponder the life of Onata Green, but the day came when I sat at my desk to ponder and write and I couldn’t continue, for I would never know what happened as it happened, or what it meant.

Onata’s story would be filtered and dirtied through me.

Now I understand that Onata made me think that I could be a serious intellect and an athlete.

But I couldn’t finish, and I confused her story with mine.

Instead of burning my notes and work, I burned my running shoes in our yard, and Wallace came home to a scorched pit and called the doctor for my head. But I saved her file and my outline with my journals, in the closet and then in the safe deposit box at the bank.

Often I’ve thought of Onata thinking, The mountains will be here tomorrow and I will not, but then seeing her great grandmother’s hand reaching and gripping the soldier’s genitals, twisting, insisting, demanding, and saving her life, and that was enough for Onata, and I’ve discovered through the years that the same holds for me.

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