Leaving Home – Friday Fictioneers

THE DETAILS:
Friday Fictioneers: 1 picture, 100 words, scores of people from around the world sharing their creativity and vision. Feel welcome to join in; visit Rochelle Wisoff-Fields HERE to find out how.

THE PROMPT:
This week’s photo prompt courtesy of, and copyright by, Dawn Q. Landau who can be found HERE.

THE STORY:

Leaving Home
I never liked Dixon from the first time mama brought him home. He never washed his hair and he smelled like Buddy smells when Buddy was wet. Mama called him “Uncle” Dixon but I knew he wasn’t my uncle. I told that to mama but she just told me ‘shush up’.

Dixon told me to shush up too. “You be a good girl now and don’t tell no one” he’d say. “Understand?”

I understood.

Leaving home wasn’t hard. The hardest thing was what to do with the screwdriver so I just left it sticking up out of Dixon’s left eye.

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