Fairy Tales for Dope Girls

By Sholonda Higgins

Fairy Tales for Dope Girls is the division between reality and fantasy for any girl whose dope enough to know that there can be a Happily Ever After even after devastation.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Nov 20, 2015
• ISBN: 9781329704404

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Fairy Tales for Dope Girls

Fairy Tales for Dope Girls

By: Sholonda Higgins

Fairy Tales for Dope Girls is the division between reality and fantasy for any girl whose dope enough to know that there can be a Happily Ever After even after devastation.

Dedication

Sonorra McMath

To the woman who proved that even if life isn’t the fairytale you dreamed it would be, it doesn’t mean that there isn’t a happy ending.

RIP

Contents

THE American Fairytale

Never Ever Land

Dope Girls

Hasan and Hasina ( Hansel & Gretel )

The Shooting Star

Happily Ever After

Nutrition

Lamb ( Rapunzel )

Rasheeda

The Lion

Mermaid

Amphitrite

Warrior Princess

Red ( Little Red Riding Hood )

About the Author

THE American Fairytale

There are girls who wear their pain like a dress

belted at hips that have been torn open,

dug raw

scabbed.

There are women whose son's deaths

are like perfume under their ears,

on their wrists.

They have birthed targets

who have bullets for hearts.  They mourn

for life with every breath that trembles

their bodies.  As if grave markers

are human and not stone.

Never Ever Land

For the girls with brothers whose hair looks like bullet fragments;

Your mothers

And grandmothers have shed their blood for them.

It is also your job to protect them.

Guide them.

You grew from the same bones,

You are of the same skeleton.

Your fathers are like print on obituaries.

Your grandfathers are like the soil that covers the graves.

Pray.

Pray that your brothers,

Your sisters

Your cousins

Your nieces

Your stepchildren

Do not swallow those very same bullets.

Dope Girls

They bleed.

Like heavy clouds, thick with un-kept tears

Like scabbed sores that have been re-scraped.

Like I love yous and Fuck Yous  graffiti-ed across their

chest in spray paint that smells like yesterday’s news, and lies seasoned with shards of broken promises.

These dope girls are not invincible.

Stop treating them like concrete, as if walking

Over them will move their foundation.

Like gum doesn’t get caught in between their cracks.

They are not there for you to test your strength,

They are here to live.

Hasan and Hasina ( Hansel & Gretel )

Hasan and Hasina were deserted kids who had not seen their parents in over three weeks. Hasan held out hope in his 14-year-old heart that by the time they returned home from school that either his mother's bright brown eyes or his father's gap tooth smile would be behind the door but they were always met with the heavy silence of abandonment.

Hasina was not disappointed.  Her 11 years of living were spent watching her parents nod off on the couch with needle marks decorating their veins like freckles. They spent their weekends with friends, trying to cover up the fact that they were orphans, hiding behind memories of hanging out at the park and corner store runs. But they knew that it was only going to be a matter of time until the neighbors caught on and officials became involved. Their biggest fear beyond starvation was being split up. They were each other's last hope and didn't want to lose one another like they had lost their parents.

So Hasan got his hands into light weight work being the lookout for low level dope boys and the messenger for the blockheads but there was only so much he could do with $100 and he hated leaving Hasina alone