I always been different. Even back in Mississippi, Mama used to say I had "too much imagination for my own good." But it wasn't imagination. I knew things other folks didn't. Felt things inside the walls of old buildings,...

Grandma Odette wasn't just Daddy's mama; she was a whole presence. The kind of woman you felt before you ever saw her. Folks in St. Martin Parish used to say Odette Sinclair walked with the ancestors. They said when...

His thin fingers That touch my veil to see my faceHis thin lips That kiss my lips after oath in wedding His thin stomach That touch me while hugging meHis thin words That sparsely and hardly talk to meHis thin body once upon a...

When it all started was the day Mama and Daddy packed up our whole life and moved us into Grandma Odette's place. Mama and Daddy had fallen on hard times back then. Daddy, Elias Sinclair, had lost his job...