Reaping Tenants

Who are you?  Where did you come from?  How did you get to where you are today?  What’s your story?  Everybody has a story, whether one is a policeman, a CEO, a bagger in a grocery store, or a murderer, he/she has a story.

However, the stories of the back stabbings, the cheating, the sacrifices, the cruelties, the lies, the hard work and the good deeds that result in the person one becomes are more than likely never revealed to his/her closest ally.

The patients in Cassom’s Asylum for the Criminally Insane have stories too.  They are criminals.  They are insane.  What’s their story?

B. J. Belisle is the mother of three and the grandmother of six. She is a retired English teacher from the Shelby County, Alabama, school system. Presently, she works part time at the Carmichael Library at the University of Montevallo in Montevallo, Alabama. She has authored a short story collection, a children's story, and several personal narratives. A poem entitled, "Do Fence Them In" is published in THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF POETRY"s "Windows of the Soul."