Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories

The story of Cleofilas is disturbing with its blunt reality. The first steps of this journey begin with leaving what she knows best, family, friends and location. Cleofilas must start from zero; she does not even know or understand really what is going to happen the night of her wedding. A girl child in a family of clumsy boys and her poor father. She has no mother figure or female friend to tell her about …

…s no clear pattern of behavior to work to study, and her parents never even raised voices to each other as far as she knew. Becoming an adult takes integrity and strength of your convictions in the face of all odds. You must improvise, overcome and adapt to face the challenges of becoming a woman and mother in a society that may ostracize you because there is no husband and there are obviously children present.