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Our Fathers, Sons, Lovers and Little Brothers
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Slimm, a seventeen-year-old Black boy in a hoodie suddenly finds himself in the first moments of his afterlife. He calls out for God. God does not respond. What happens next is a sacred journey through the unknown, as Slimm grapples with the truth of the life he lived and the death he didn't choose.
Our Fathers, Sons, Lovers and Little Brothers is a protest for all Black life beyond headlines and hashtags, a prayer for all families left behind, and a promise to the community that all Black lives matter.
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The last inhale.
A seventeen-year-old Black boy in a hoodie appears. His body parts isolate, moving in a way that is unfamiliar.
Slimm: What just happened?
He considers his own body. He tries to control his limbs.
Iām hot. Iām wet?
He observes the space. He sees eyes watching him.
God!?
The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
He makes me lie down in green pastures.
He leads me beside still waters.
He restores my soul.
He leads me in paths of righteousness for his nameās sake.
Even though I walk through the valley
of the shadow of death,
I fear no evil,
For you are with me.
He remembers to do the sign of the cross.
(to the eyes) I havenāt been to church in a minute. I just thought Iād slip in a little insurance.
Are yāall here for Judgment Day?
Is God on Black people time?
There should be like a step-by-step instruction manual.
A large book appears.
The boy approaches the book.
(reading) āYour Journey to the Ancestors.ā
The book glows and inscribes itself.
āA Step-by-Step Instruction Manual.ā
āOpen me.ā
Mmm-mmm.
He walks away from the book.
Grandma appears.
Grandma: Baby, you stand on the shoulders of the ancestors who chose you to represent them in this moment.
She points at the book.
Open it.
Slimm: Grandma? Arenāt you the one who used to force me to go to church? Whereās God? And why do I have to . . .
Grandma: That sperm hit that egg and you were no mistake.
Slimm: Did you just say sperm?
Grandma disappears.
Grandma?
Slimm looks at the book.
God is actually kind of savage.
(to the eyes) Have you read the Old Testament? He turned a bitch into salt just for looking back.
I got another one. God is so savage . . .
Youāre supposed to say, āHow savage is he?ā
God is so savage . . .
He waits for āHow savage is he?ā
Um, okay, so he hollas at his homeboy and tells him to spend like two entire months building this huge-ass fucking boat. Then he makes him scour da whole earff, gatherinā all the animals, like, two of each one and shit just to be like, āIām gonna make it flood,ā and itās like, āDude, you had the power to make a flood but you didnāt have the power to build your own boat?ā
Laughter.
God is so savage . . .
He waits for āHow savage is he?ā
So itās like a Tuesday morning, like a couple thousand years ago, right? God calls up his friend Abraham, right? And heās like (to the tune of Lionel Richie) āHello . . . is it me youāre lookinā for?ā
Just kidding, just kidding. That was . . . bad. So heās like, āHey, Abe. Itās me, Lord. Yeah, nigga. Whatās good? Yeah yeah, okay. Howās work? Cool . . . cool. Howās your wife? Okay, cool. Howās your only son? Great. Iāma need you to sacrifice him.ā
(hanging up the imaginary phone) Click!
And so Abraham takes his fucking kid, drags this lil nigga up a mountain, puts him down on like a altar or some shit, lifts up this huge-ass rock and just as heās about to smash his head into a thousand tiny pieces, God be like, āJust kidding . . . Kidding . . . Kidding.ā
Abrahamās just like . . .
Slimm does some Abraham improv.
Then God didnāt say nothinā else.
Savage. Ancestors all the way.
Slimm opens the book.
āYour Journey to the Ancestors: A Step-by-Step Instruction Manual. Step 1: perform a sacred ceremony to sanctify the space.ā
Slimm does the Soulja Boy dance. When heās done, his arm floats in the air. Slimm observes his arm and then slowly shakes it off.
Gravity feels different here.
The book glows. Each sentence in the book appears just before it needs to be read.
āYour Journey to the Ancestors: A Step-by-Step Instruction Manual. Step 2: read the following pa...
Table of contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Production History
- Epigraph
- Characters
- Our Fathers, Sons, Lovers and Little Brothers
- Acknowledgements
- About the Author