Kill Marguerite And Other Stories - Plot & Excerpts
It was a dream. I had sex with my cousin, who is from a different walk. She is in the proverbial mud, while I am two floors up with three degrees and cats with special diets. We are both poor. I had sex with my cousin, who is black; I’m white. Or she’s biracial, but identifies as black, or has Gone Over to the Dark Side, as my mother has said. My mother says the same thing about me, substituting Other for Dark, because I’m a dyke, and discomfiting. I am not, actually, poor. I had sex with my cousin, who is fat. She has three kids by different fathers. She is in and out of jail, of rehab. She stutters. Her mom is mean. Her nose is always running. We’re the same age, born the same year, slept in the same bed at our grandmother’s house when we visited as kids. My middle name is her first name. She was and is a heavy breather. We are the only girls of eleven cousins, thirteen if you count our uncle’s two adopted sons from El Salvador but we don’t because our parents don’t. I had sex with my cousin.
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