Table of Contents
Table Of Contents
Prologue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .vii
Chapter 1 The First Time I Saw The Light. . . . . . . . . . 1
Chapter 2 He Told Her to Beat Me . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Chapter 3 The Universe's Pussy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Chapter 4 Aunt Charlie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Chapter 5 Fry Jacks, Black Eyes, and Papaya Jam. . . . 19
Chapter 6 Friends and Sisters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Chapter 7 What the Pig Told the Wolf. . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Chapter 8 Child of Light. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Chapter 9 I Didn't Want Her to Leave. . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Chapter 10 Dog Fight Central . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Chapter 11 Kung Fu Crack Baby . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Chapter 12 Freedom Fighters and Caterpillars . . . . . . . 60
Chapter 13 I Was Curious About Her Laughter. . . . . . 65
Chapter 14 I Didn't Respect Him. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Chapter 15 Not the Son He Never Had. . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Chapter 16 Cotton Balls in the Sky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Chapter 17 Tornados, Ghetto Birds, And Magical
Hood Witches. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Chapter 18 Death of a Lightning Ball. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Chapter 19 That Story About the Glowing Potato. . . . 92
Chapter 20 Don't Call Me Chinese. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Chapter 21 Call the Paramedics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Chapter 22 Gone But Not Forgotten . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Chapter 23 Thou Shall Not Kill Me. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Chapter 24 Kickball. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Chapter 25 The Magical Otherside. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Chapter 26 Shapeshifters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Chapter 27 Puppet Master. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Chapter 28 A House Of Gas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Chapter 29 Was I Afraid? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Chapter 30 Willie Earl. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Chapter 31 The Bitch Inside the Mirror. . . . . . . . . . . 137
Chapter 32 The Girl From the Light. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Chapter 33 Your Sister's Keeper. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Chapter 34 To Dance With Momma. . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Chapter 35 Onion Pouch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Chapter 36 Glowing Away Party. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Chapter 37 Last Dance With Momma. . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Epilogue A New Beginning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix