With many projects underway, it is with great guilt and greater reluctance that I take a break from this blog (at least until my more recent endeavor is complete). I expect Trash to be up and r...
Identical swamp twins Jonas and Jarvis arrived in Chicago via private jet at approximately 10:30am, exactly 3 hours after being summoned by Lourdes under the Grand Ma-mas direct and strictest of orde...
Mason Truce had become a father. “A father,” he whispered. “Feels good does it? To be father?” Tiny asked, walking briskly alongside his boss as they quickly navigated do...
“Did you hear the good news? Auntie Josephine says that mommy died last night?” The little boy named Lexington excitedly asks his older sister Loren, as he sits on the polished wood floor...
Sitting in the passenger seat of a souped-up smoke-black Escalade Mason Truce reads his iphone (his third one in a month) as Tiny drives them the brief distance from the Lee-Reynolds headquarters to ...
"Normally I would say it is a pleasure to see you Mr. Truce, however, it is not. And as you may or may not be aware, Im an extremely busy person with not much time to spare, meaning you hav...
Looking down at her swollen feet and glittering gold minx pedicure, Devra Lee Truce can barely believe the three numbers swelling red on the digital scale. Biting back bile, she madly blinks he...
"Breathe you rotten, evil bitch! You are not going to die on me! Not until I kill you first! Breathe! I said." ***"I dont know what to do," Lourdes whispers, si...
"Let me get this straight, you and this dude Chason spent time in jail together?" Lance asked, inching closer to Terrence while unable to avoid any of the beer or cigarette stains cover...
Dressed expertly in an Isabel Marant midnight blue sweater, matching wrap skirt, and ox-blood red suede Louboutins coincidentally named Lisette, Nadine Lee Fletcher unflinchingly stares at flashing c...
For those of you who still happen to visit this site, its obvious Ive been on hiatus. Something to do with that other blog, 2 kids, a growing business, and a project pile stacked so high its ey...
Dont think for one second I dont know what people say about me. They say; "that crazy bitch Lisette this, and that crazy bitch Lisette that..." Yes, and? What? What. About. ...
Lisette took a deep breath as the helicopter continued to whirl its way over a serenely still and glistening Lake Michigan. Her cousins, the swamp twins, Jonas and Jarvis had successfully kidna...
First cousin and Lisettes personal attorney, Nadine Lee Fletcher knocks softly on the Grand Ma-mas bedroom door located on the third floor of Lisettes enormous Kenwood mansion on Greenwood. A H...
"Where is Lisette now?" The Grand Ma-ma asks her daughter Lourdes between dainty sips of ginger tea. "We dont know," Lourd...
Lisette ends the call and stuffs the cell phone in a jean pocket. "Our cousin Roxanne is dead, and my children are missing," she says simply and with little emo...
"I dont understand. I need to hear this again. Slow and precise. Do you hear me?" Mason Truce whispers between clenched teeth, staring h...
"How is she?" Lourdes breathlessly asks Dr. Cohen as he gently closes the ornate bedroom door behind himself. &nbs p; "Shes resting. Your mo...
Lance listens to the rain as he feebly struggles to free his bound wrists. The handcuffs are tight, cutting into his chapped, brown skin. Hes long since become us...
Lisette sits down on the bed freshly showered and dressed in dark rinsed Acne stretch jeans, white cotton t-shirt and a yellow crochet macrame "Guelda" jacket by DVF. H...
When Roxanne Lee first decided to leave a mind-numbing job as a social service specialist to work for the family, she knew she would be embarking upon the adventure of a life...
Dr. Cohen gently knocks on the Grand Ma-ma's bedroom door. Bobby and Marvin Lee stand stoically by his side. The door slowly opens seemingly by itself. Insi...
The Grand Ma-ma lies on her back, sleeping soundly. Seconds pass. She starts to shiver. In the darkened bedroom, her gray eyes pop open. Black pupils blaze with a...
Mason Truce paces the length of his bright white office stopping briefly to stare out of the large picture windows overlooking Lake Michigan. It is early morning. ...
"Devra? Are you in there? Open the door?" Mason knocks on the bathroom door. "I'm busy!" Devra shouts, quickly wrapping the wet pregnancy ...
I first met Lisette Lee Reynolds as a very young immigrant boy. I was perhaps 5 or 6 years old at the time my mother Raisa first began cleaning for Lisette and Devra's ...
Mason Truce rarely drinks. Today he sips a vintage port from Lalique Coutard stemware, a gift from his assistant Charlayne, who quietly sits across from him now. ...
Jasper and Jonas Lee are identical twins. Their father is Luther Lee, the Grand Ma-ma's 6th child. Luther left Montgomery, Alabama in the summer of 1983 for reaso...
"You've always been a complicated woman," he lightly kisses the intricate scars where her breasts once used to be. She smiles and asks, "How so?" ...
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