Mr. Stickum
Summer, 2019
JUSTICE CAN BE SUCH A STICKY BUSINESSAfter school we began to hear. Certain incidents at night in the old mill town on the Delaware River.Pop-up parties—for (adult) men.Girls from Eastern Europe, Asia, Central America were available for a fee. Girls between the ages of 10 and 16. Or maybe six and 16. They’d been transported by night. Initially, some of them, in the (fetid) hulls of ocean vessels. Then in the (fetid) hulls of cattle trucks. They did not speak English. Which languages they spoke,...
