Tag: generational trauma
-
Lesson Not Learned~ short story
LESSON LEARNED [Born pale and black, a young girl learns a harsh lesson she can’t forget.] May 1957- Lumberton, Mississippi “Shut up, gal,” Mama shouted whipping my bare backside with her switch. It was long and skinny, the worse kind. It felt like hundreds of tiny razorblades dragging with each strike against my naked, pale […]