I Read Stories: Graftings by Stella Lei

Graftings by Stella Lei in Craft Literary

Charity was never hungry and her sister Elaine says it’s because it was left behind in her mother when she was born. Elaine was there when Charity was born in the bathtub, and aged 10 pulled her out, cut the cord, wrapped her up. Warmed bottles of formula milk in the sun, fed her every three hours. She says that their mother split open like a clementine when Charity was born.

Their mother does not tell her side of the story. She is obsessed with thieves, with their father who left, with the money. Perhaps there will be one last thing taken from her.

Read This: For the stories we tell and the families that are forced on us
Don’t Read This: A family that does not understand each other, though some care more than others