Paul Lopez
“While this was happening, was she still breathing, or did it appear as if she had already passed away?”
Kalia Staine
“She still mih the breath, she stop breath when time she mih the ovah deh the look fuh guh cross.”
Venecia had been living on Antelope Street Extension in Belize City with her sister Beverly and had not visited home for the past two years. She had come to spend Easter weekend with her mother.
Beverly Staine
“Venecia come home over fuh enjoy himself, nuh come mek no problem with nobody. Knowing that this mih ah be my sister last. I can’t even guh eena my house. You know weh I do fuh sleep? I had to pick up my sister pillow hug it up, just fuh smell ah. I can’t sleep.”