Our Lady of Blessed Waters

[Andre DeCuir]

        When we were told to evacuate our town because of the predicted floodwaters, I asked Miss Shelda, who must have lived here forever, if she remembered any other floods in the area.

     "It's funny how I don't remember when they opened the spillway in '73, but I do remember the flood of '27.  I was just a li'l thing then, but I remember sitting on the roof of Miss Melancon's house where Mama worked.  We were just looking out at that muddy water waiting for the boat, and that's when I saw Jesus in the water.  It was just a li'l picture that floated by--from some church or maybe somebody's house-- and I turned to my mama and said 'Look Mama, Jesus came for us,' but when she turned to look, a little whirly pool had took it away, and it looked like a scrap  of paper floating on the water." 

     She smiled, squeezed my hand, and left the church where we had been sitting, Our Lady of Blessed Waters.

[Jeanette Cheezum]

This has an angelic voice that speaks to us all. I saw everything through that childs eyes. The name  Our Lady of Blessed Waters, was the perfect ending.

[Jadie Jones]

I love this!

[Stephen Torelli]

A nice touch.

[Michael Brown]

Nicely done. Full of flavor and triumph over tragedy without going into gory details. This piece feels like a writing out of of one of those little watercolors you might find done by a thoughtful artist currently residing in NOLa. The one that would stand out from all the ordinary traditional sketches.

[Gita]

This rolls off the tongue like cajun speech. I love the name Melancon, and I hear it as a soft 'c' not a hard one. Now I want to play Randy Newman's song "Louisiana."

Good writing, Andre.

[Joey Delgado]

Gorgeous writing. :) Thanks for this, Andre.

[Scarlett Rose]

This is stunning. And intriguing. And has left me wanting to know a little more. Really great character development.