The Storyteller
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This is the story of what it means to have loved under the weight of chains, and how even when
the music stops....
....a womans scream can echo forever
The bee's knees
By the age of ten, Asha's work was already being displayed at every church event and fair in The Magnolia State. People would whisper "That girl got magic in her hands." She painted a picture of the preacher's late wife from memory only after seeing her once. Traveling art collectors wrote pieces tilted things like "Bayou's Little Brush" and "The Girl Who Paints What We Feel." And that is how the world came to know the negro girl whos hands could see.
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The Beauregard's, a high class creole familiy with a diminishing status, caught wind of her from a dinner amongst the elite. They needed her,. Her marriage was posed as a "blessing" to her family "Asha's marrying up. Sh{e'll be well taken care of." A way to own what they could not buy.
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Asha now 20 lives in a gilded cage - a beautiful woman trapped in a loveless, controlling marriage to Langston Beauregard, the eldest of the Beauregard family. Then she meets Him. Pop warm, brilliant, untamed, and for the first time, she knows love. But their passion defies the laws of their time, both legally and socially.
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This story weaves through sensual highs and devastating lows, with Asha's voice as the beating heart. Her journey is not just one of love lost, but identity, resistance, and the devastating price of agency in a world built to silence women like her.