The Calamity Sisters - Historical Women's Fiction

I have delivered over two hundred babies in Chilton County. I have seen what husbands leave on their wives' skin. I have written it down in a notebook nobody was meant to read.When Florrie Oakes asked if I knew someone who could help, I said yes. That yes put a woman and two children on a dark road out of this county. That yes is the reason a deputy with a black pen is asking questions about me. That yes is the reason a violent husband is standing on my porch at dusk, telling me things about my life that only a man who has been watching would know.I am not the only one who said yes. There is a woman who runs a diner. There is a woman who drives the back roads at midnight. We never meet in the same room. We never say the word for what we do.Now someone is talking. Someone is pulling records. And the silence that kept us alive is breaking open.My name is Mozelle Greer. I am a midwife. And the most dangerous thing I have ever done is not delivering a baby in the dark.It is what I delivered a woman from.