Slices of Life
A Ghetto Anthology
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Christmas morning the girls had the best Christmas ever. Everyone was home, the whole family was together. The house was filled with love. This would be the last time I would ever be welcome. I don’t know why I did it. I started thinking about Joe and the girls not having a father. I felt sad, I started to feel pain. My mother opened the bathroom door and there I was smoking rock cocaine. I never saw my mother look so sad, so disappointed. You see, everyone always thought of me as the good one, the smart one, I was going to succeed. That day I broke my mother’s heart. She beat me with an iron, cursed my soul and barred me from the home I grew up in.
I saw the girls coming home from school yesterday. They didn’t even acknowledge me. I heard some other kids teasing them, sayings that’s your momma, a rock head. I saw my youngest cry when she was scorned by those words. That really fucked me up inside. So I went back to my corner and smoked another rock.
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About the Book
A true perspective of today’s urban youth filled with raunchy comical stories about the way of life in inner cities, mixed with the small town complications of lost hopes and broken dreams wrapped up in poems and short stories.
About the Author
Gazaria Williams has a unique and authentic way of relating to her surroundings. To pick a theme as far as Gazaria is concerned it would be knowledge. The pursuit of knowledge which is apparent throughout her credentials is education with several degrees in Psychology which shows her interest in people’s motivation, the way they think and how we become who we are. As no surprise the content of her book takes two different economical, social and educational groups and show how people become products of their environment.