Theresa Glenn

When Tone brings Brianna to her knees, the only way she will stand again is by grace! Excerpt Copyrighted Material My younger brothers spent a lot of time with me; either at my apartment, or at my parent’s house. We all clung to each other after Malik was arrested. One Sunday afternoon, our entire family was enjoying a bar b que. “Aye, before anybody eats the hot sausage, I just want ya’ll to know… one of ‘em had a hard time.” My Dad said causing all of us to laugh. “Whatchu mean Dad?” My little brother, Chai asked. “Well,” my Dad began, “as I was taking it off the grill, it fell on the ground; so I brought it inside and washed it off.” “Why wouldn’t you just throw it away?” My brother shook his head unbelievingly. “That sausage was expensive!” My Dad exclaimed, “Anyway,” he went on, “After I washed it off, I dropped it on the kitchen floor!” We all laughed. “Tell me you threw it away!” My brother chimed in. “Boy. What I tell you. I washed it off again and decided to put it back on the grill to get the germs off.” He explained as if it all made sense, “but on the way, don’t you know I dropped that bad boy on the garage steps!” He laughed. We all assumed after that he would just throw it away. “I just picked it up and put it in the bowl… I said forget it!” He threw his hands up in defeat. “Eww!” We all said in unison. “Awe, don’t worry about it,” my Dad said, digging in the bowl to find the hot sausage, “I remember which one it was.” We all shook our heads in disbelief. That man would do anything to save some money. “Uh, oh.” He said, “I don’t see it.” He looked back at us nervously. We all started checking our plates for the hot sausage. “Well only three of us eat hot sausage,” he said, “Me, Chai and….” Everyone looked over at Alisha, my brother’s girlfriend. As if she wasn’t paying attention to the conversation, she took the last bite of the hot sausage, and licked mustard stained fingers. The whole room erupted with laughter. When she realized she had the faulty dog, she gulped down a whole glass of soda in an attempt to wash her mouth out. We all joked about it for the rest of the afternoon.