Black Woman Blue

<I>Black Woman Blue</I> is story telling at its southern best! Author Jacqueline Akins explores the joys of friendship while examining the painstaking truth behind deceit; and just when evil rears it's ugly head the reader is rescued and bosomed in a reward of self-discovery patience and faithfulness.</p><p> As I pulled into the driveway of the place I knew was ours I tried to think of when things started going wrong for us. I never wanted a big house just a nice place to lay my head in peace. I just wanted to have a comfortable place to be when I was tired of being everywhere else. I know this is the right place because the numbers on the house say one thousand two. Everybody say the truth suppose to set you free and I can use a taste of freedom right now. So hear me when I say to you this is our house but it's a long way from being home! How I wish I could step out of this car and go inside and leave Wesley out here in the car to sleep off his drunk. I can't. I can't cause I hear my daddy saying 'I told you so.' And I hear my mama words echoing in my ear 'you ain't got to go if you don't want to but if you go be woman enough to stay.'</p><p> <P align=right>--From the short story Home Goings </P align=right>