FELLA - Chapter 2 of 30
Mother Tongue
Through long nights of prayer and tearful litanies meant to drive out the fire of passion in poor, vulnerable bodies, Tate’s soul languishes in its overloud prison of color and noise—unshakeable, unasked-for. Some nights in sleep, tremors take her. Skeins of Tate’s memory tear off without warning, lost to periods of walking twilight. Her rage compounds.
The poor thing is just a girl. All she should have to be is a girl.
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As Tate grows into adolescence, change descends with a heavy hand and she discovers a new language latent in her aching brain.
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Love, love, love it. The compulsive fervor toward music is drawn so well here.