Emma’s Mama: A tragic, moving short story on a victim of incest
“Hold she down dey!” her mother said to her two brothers. “Yuh is too much of a bad little girl, always lying and making up story. And now look what you gone and do!”
“Leh mih go! Leh mih go!” Emma Thomas screamed, twisting her little body this way and that. “Ah not lyin. Leh mih goooooo.”
“Hold she, allyuh, hold she and open she leg,” her mother commanded, striding back to the bedside armed with her instrument of torture. “Leh mih pepper she!”
“No, Mammy, no! Oh God, no!”