The Sacrifice
““Ma’am? Is this ‘Sister Ednetta Frye’?”
Sister! Blindly Ednetta took the pen from the delivery man’s fingers, and signed the receipt.
Blindly signed, and blindly stumbled into the kitchen with a bouquet of one dozen long-stemmed bloodred roses in her arms from your friend & protector Reverend Marus C. Mudrick.
“Jesus, Mama! They be bringing that shit to the wrong house, an you gon have to pay for it!”—Sybilla laughed.
Ednetta was feeling too faint to argue with the girl. Just too—too faint—and ...her heart pounding so hard—it was easier to set the delicate flowers in the sink and search for a vase while Sybilla jeered and mocked as if the sight of the roses was frightening to her, too.
“Got to be the first time anybody sent flowers here.”
Seeing her mother’s stricken smile, and the way Ednetta slumped into a chair as if her legs had given way beneath her, Sybilla quieted and searched for the card, that had fallen into the sink.
“Mama, who the fuck’s this—‘Reverend Marus C.MoreLess
Sister! Blindly Ednetta took the pen from the delivery man’s fingers, and signed the receipt.
Blindly signed, and blindly stumbled into the kitchen with a bouquet of one dozen long-stemmed bloodred roses in her arms from your friend & protector Reverend Marus C. Mudrick.
“Jesus, Mama! They be bringing that shit to the wrong house, an you gon have to pay for it!”—Sybilla laughed.
Ednetta was feeling too faint to argue with the girl. Just too—too faint—and ...her heart pounding so hard—it was easier to set the delicate flowers in the sink and search for a vase while Sybilla jeered and mocked as if the sight of the roses was frightening to her, too.
“Got to be the first time anybody sent flowers here.”
Seeing her mother’s stricken smile, and the way Ednetta slumped into a chair as if her legs had given way beneath her, Sybilla quieted and searched for the card, that had fallen into the sink.
“Mama, who the fuck’s this—‘Reverend Marus C.MoreLess
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