My Grandmother's Curse

Grandma Stella was the only light in my brutal

gnored and reviled by my mother, her last breath was

andma' s body and dump it in the industrial lot,

tery, the one they coveted for themselves, whispering a desperate

se-my brother's fever, our truck dying, eve

eacher who, instead of helping, declared me the vessel of m

a was far more powerful than I ever imagined, turning our ho