Sobriquet

By Marilyn Jones

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Feb 15, 2023
• ISBN: 9781669866398

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Sobriquet

Marilyn Jones

Copyright © 2023 by Marilyn Jones.

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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Rev. date: 05/11/2023

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Contents

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fifteen

Chapter Sixteen

Chapter Seventeen

Chapter Eighteen

Chapter Nineteen

(I thank Yahweh for all He has done for me.)

"The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts

of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech

owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest."

Isaiah 34:14

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"And I, the Master, proclaim the majesty of his beauty to frighten

and terrify all the spirits of the destroying angels and the spirits of

the bastards, the demons, Lilith, the howlers and the yelpers ..."

from The Dead Sea Scrolls (Songs of the Sage, 4Q510)

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LILITH:

Female figure in Mesopotamian and Judaic mythology,

alternatively the first wife of Adam and supposedly the primordial

she-demon who was banished from the Garden of Eden.

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"The Akkadian word lilu is related to the Hebrew word

lilith in Isaiah 34:14, which is thought to be a night bird by

some modern scholars such as Judit M. Blair. In the Ancient

Mesopotamian religion, found in cuneiform texts of Sumer,

Assyria, and Babylonia, Lilith signifies a spirit or demon."

Wikipedia

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SOBRIQUET: a person’s nickname

Chapter One

Vierge didn’t believe what some scientists say, that before heterosexuality, before males and females, people were isogamous. She believed what her mother taught her about that word and that humans began female and were all only female millions of years ago (female leaders of tribes, cultures, and life), all female, long before the beginning of androcentrism and the male. Vierge’s mother Aliceanna was very smart and taught Vierge (when Vierge first got her period) that XX is superior and pure and that the XY is a mutation from the gene pool, a mutation that occurred as a possible result of faulty scientific experimentation by some brilliant ancient female biologist. She said that religion and religious-distorted beliefs caused humans to think in the opposite of the truth of sexuality and reproduction. Aliceanna told Vierge that religion also depicted a woman named Lilith as a demon because Lilith wanted to be in charge of her own sexuality. Aliceanna believed that woman originally reproduced through some form of parthenogenesis---that women came first and eggs came first---a baby grows in the womb, and the female produces milk for the child’s nourishment, providing what is necessary for growth and development. Aliceanna said that it just made sense! She said that Vierge had to believe her without a doubt, that long ago, the ancient women would reproduce without the male existence. And women were much smarter than men. Women were dominant biologically. Women were the most intelligent, strong, and productive creatures on the earth. And as far as Aliceanna was concerned, women still were.

Vierge never met her father. Aliceanna very rarely mentioned him. Vierge remembered that on that day when she was a youngster and insistently asked Aliceanna about her father, Aliceanna was drinking wine and did talk about the gone Alban. Aliceanna talked a very, very long time that sad night as she drank the wine until she fell asleep at the kitchen table. (Vierge left her mother there that night and went to bed. She didn’t know that although she did so from time to time, Aliceanna wasn’t supposed to be drinking wine while taking the antidepressant medicine Aliceanna was taking.)

Aliceanna said that she met Alban at a party during her first year of Brenard Bache College in New York City. Alban was tall and handsome and Caucasian and French. Aliceanna was a tall, pretty African-American woman who had been the only child of her parents and had lived in Brooklyn since she was four-years-old. At nineteen, she got her own tiny apartment in the City.

After they met at a party, Aliceanna and Alban spent two wonderful days and nights together during that weekend in her apartment. Aliceanna was a virgin before meeting Alban; and he told her that the French word for virgin was vierge, the nickname which he playfully and lovingly gave her. On that following Monday afternoon, Aliceanna decided not to go to her job nor her classes for that day. Instead, after making love to Alban all morning, she went to the store to purchase food for a delicious steak dinner for them and quickly returned to her apartment. When she did, to her surprise, Alban was gone. She wondered why he left and expected him to return that night, but he didn’t. And he never returned. When Aliceanna frantically called the telephone numbers he had given to her, he was not at those numbers, not at those places.

Weeks later, Aliceanna found that she was pregnant. She sadly told her mother about the Frenchman she fell in love with on a weekend, about her pregnancy and plans for an abortion. Her mother Dorothy was a strict Catholic and told Aliceanna to have the baby with the plan to put the child up for adoption after its birth.

Aliceanna hoped that Alban would come back someday. She never saw him again. Aliceanna finally gave up her tiny apartment in the City and moved back with her parents.

When Aliceanna gave birth to her baby, she named her pretty little daughter Vierge Williams. (Williams was Aliceanna’s surname.) After seeing her little girl, she could not bare to give her baby up for adoption. Aliceanna’s mother fell in love with the baby too, softened her husband’s heart, and promised that she would help Aliceanna raise Vierge.

Aliceanna never forgot Alban and mourned for him day and night. She never returned to college. Dorothy sadly watched her daughter turn into a hermit. Other than her daily commitment to her job at the local supermarket and her weekly visits to St. Victor’s Church, Aliceanna seldom went anywhere else, focusing most of her time and attention on Vierge.

When Vierge was five-years-old, Aliceanna’s parents were killed in an automobile accident. Never changing her routine, Aliceanna kept their apartment on Fairview Street and continued her routine of only going to work (extending her working hours) and church. Her second-floor neighbor Claudine Porter babysat for Aliceanna, who payed Claudine regularly for doing so. Even after Vierge grew older, Aliceanna had Vierge go to Claudine’s apartment after school for Claudine’s care, guidance, and help for Vierge with home assignments while Aliceanna was at work.

One evening, nearly an hour after Aliceanna picked Vierge up from Claudine’s apartment, Claudine’s husband Robert left their apartment to go out to purchase some beer. He promised that he wouldn’t be gone long because it was starting to rain.

Then only moments after his departure, he called Claudine.

Claude, he said. You’re not going to believe this! (Claudine heard thunder and could hear strong rain beginning to beat on her windows.)

Claude, Robert almost shouted. Aliceanna and little Vierge are standing on the corner of Eighth and Roman Streets in the rain. And Aliceanna is singing some kind of gospel song out here out loud! Out here in the rain! It’s pouring down!

Out in the rain? Claudine loudly asked.

Out here, Claude! They’re out here in bright yellow raincoats and hoods! It’s pouring down wet out here! Aliceanna’s got that baby standing out here in the rain! Some guys were running pass them laughing at Aliceanna out here in the rain! Robert shouted. Aliceanna is dumb as, dumb as hell!

Can you go over and talk to Aliceanna? Ask her why she’s out there with Vierge getting wet and all? Claudine sadly shouted.

I don’t know, Robert sadly answered. I’ll try. He quickly ended the call.

Claudine went to her kitchen window first and then sat