Afterburn
A Novel
Chapter One
Rayne Waters, Age 15
Birmingham, AL
June 1990
I was lying in my bed dreaming about Prince
laying me down on his basement bed; like he did
to Apollonia in Purple Rain. I'd fallen asleep
staring at the poster of him I had taped to my
bedroom ceiling; a nightly routine for me. It
was the one where he was lying on his stomach
with his ass cheeks exposed; enough to tease the
millions of teenage girls who idolized him like
me.
"Rayne, wake up! Wake up, dammit!"
Momma's high-pitched, irritating voice pierced
into my blissful sleep. I willed both it and her
to go away. Lost cause. Momma shook my shoulders
and yanked me halfway off my twin-sized canopy
bed.
"Rayne, you know you hear me! Sit up, missy!
Time for a talk!"
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