Milkman

And now, quite suddenly, I felt sad.

With that, one-quarter rape became our district’s default sexual charge.

an irritation at my mother for not seeing what was in front of her was steadily building up.

Everybody knew it had been the soldiers, that it had been a statement by them to teach us, the natives, a lesson, to announce they could deal with our dogs, could overcome our dogs barking and snarling and warning renouncers of their presence. Our dogs though, had never been just about that.

The banned names were understood to have become infused with the energy, the power of history, the age-old conflict, enjoinments and resisted impositions as laid down long ago in this country by that country, with the original nationality of the name now not in the running at all.

There was the fact that you created a political statement everywhere you went, and with everything you did, even if you didn’t want to.

Observing the niceties therefore, not the antipathies, was crucial to co-existence and an example of that would be our French class,

Primevally

She broke off from her talk about her sister’s great terror, which had been mistaken for her sister’s great anger, and she started,