The Old Higue's Web of Deceit

Dearest Readers, Richmond Hill spills tonight with whispers more bitter than karila and twice

as scorching as a pot left too long on the fire. Today’s tale concerns a man whose deepest

wounds come not from lovers or strangers, but from the one person meant to protect him from

the world, The Old Higue. When he was only three years old, The Old Higue left

him in Guyana with his grandmother and boarded a flight to New York without a backward glance.

Not long after arriving there, she became pregnant with his brother and overstayed her

visa. She began a new life while abandoning the old one. His father lingered

around the edges of his childhood, present in body but absent in spirit. The boy grew on