My Good Girl
By Diamond D. Johnson
Journal Braxton had it hard from the start. Growing up in one of the roughest parts of Miami, alongside her two older siblings. Having a mom that was negligent towards her children, it caused Journal and her siblings to fiend for themselves, which one day ultimately landed the 3 of them in foster care. Journal was forced to believe that her and her siblings would forever stick together, but they were all eventually separated from one another, and her life has gone downhill ever since.
Eighteen years go by since the separation, and now Journal is an adult. She’s struggling out here in the...