Doll Crimes
Maybe I did it just to see if I could.
“It surprised the hell out of me,” my mother says. “It scared your Auntie Clem. Shook her up. She didn’t want to believe you’d done such a thing. She was so upset over it, I’d swear it was like she was the one who’d given you that doll.” And she chuckles, but it’s a dark sound and she shakes her head.
My momma talks in a voice like sliding, pointed silver when she tells me Samelsa got tossed down the well, and nobody understood why. She holds my hands, she pushes her gaze deep into mine. “I took it as a sign,” she says.
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