Ann Forcier

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“Her Mother's Daughter” by Ann Forcier

Submitted to Contest #230

From behind a live oak, Marie watched Maman's shoulders shake, her head in her hands, mucus dripping through her fingertips. Marie's stomach clenched as she felt the prickle at the back of her neck. Maman doesn't cry. Maman raged, laughed, danced. She scolded. For Marie's courses, Maman taught her to use dried Spanish moss or rags from clothes they could no longer mend. She fed eighteen people from a pound of rice and fish from the Savannah River. Round the night fire outside their makeshift cabin, Maman told stories that filled Marie and ...

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Ann G Forcier (Acadiann) was a freelance journalist for 20 years before turning her hand to historical fiction. Her short story The Promise was a finalist in the 2023 History through Fiction Short-Story Contest. AG developed and led Writing to Heal and Rock&Write courses for college students and adult learners. Ann is also a registered poetry therapist (PTR) who uses a variety of narrative and writing tools in her psychotherapy practice. Her poetry is published in The Journal of Unknown Poets and Heliotrope: French Heritage Women Create. You can read my non-fiction about Acadia at https://acadiann.substack.com/publish/posts