Because You Love Me

By Sy Criswell

What is it you want from me, Juanita? Jerry asked as if to fill in the silence. I have shown you how much I respect you in every way I know how. It goes right over your head. He looked confused and shifted restlessly. You are so much more than the slight difference in your shoulders. Im happy when I enter your front door. I smell candles burning and food cooking, I feel like Im in heaven. With an all-encompassing wave of his hand he included, Im wrapped in luxury when Im with you. Then he choked up. You are a blossom! Im a clod by comparison. Im twice your size, yet all I hear from you are questions like, what will your relatives or friends think? Well, I cant control what people think. You are putting me in the same category with Boyd.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Aug 29, 2014
• ISBN: 9781499060348

Sy Criswell

I am a Texan transplanted Fresno California. I started my adult as a Bank Bookkeeper, somehow I ventured into the medical field. After retirement I joined a writing group. I started off with short stories that I sold to True Love Magazines, Woman’s World amd the Fresno Bee Newspaper. I love the characters that come right out of my head when I write. I wrote, A LITTLE OLE’ BOLL WEEVIL JUST LOOKIN’ FOR A HOME, and BECAUSE YOU LOVE ME, both are fictional characters. The Boll Weevil story is me at age four, riding all over the USA with my drunk “ Daddy,” while we looked for a home for me. I am one-quarter Indian so one of the places he teied to place me after my mother died was the Indian reservation in Chacota, Oklahoma. The Indians gave me a new perspective on life.

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