Fred treated me like a daughter, a drunk daughter but a daughter nonetheless.
Tag: Silver Bottle
Silver Bottle, Carmen Speaks, Episode 35
“You had a step-sister?” I asked. She nodded and told me she’d said enough. Her people were dead, and she didn’t want to talk about them. I… Read more “Silver Bottle, Carmen Speaks, Episode 35”
Silver Bottle, Episode 34
Carmen Speaks I was so excited I hardly knew what to do, so I did what I knew how. I finished cutting the onions, sprinkled the steaks… Read more “Silver Bottle, Episode 34”
Silver Bottle, Episode 33, Carmen Speaks
I’d deaden myself with Sominex, telling myself that everything would be over soon.
Silver Bottle, Episode 32, Carmen Speaks
Do you still believe Samy is alive, Carmen?
Silver Bottle, Episode 31, Carmen Speaks
I remained a virgin when I didn’t want to.
Silver Bottle, Episode 30
I decided to write a letter to God.
Silver Bottle, Episode 29
I prayed a lot. I prayed to God, I prayed to Jesus, I prayed to the Holy Ghost, asking him to intervene because the other two weren’t speaking to me.
Silver Bottle, ‘This Will Never Stop” Chapter, Episode 28
I accepted Jesus Christ as my personal savior thirteen times before your grandmother put a stop to my altar runs.
“This Will Never Stop”, Episode 24 from the novel, Silver Bottle
Such a lot of motion in a two-syllable word. A shyly sensual sound at a time when sex wasn’t talked about, except by married women on porches in the summer twilight, or wildly exaggerated by teenage girls.
