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Octavia Butler was shy as a child.

Summary
The short "The Evening and the Morning and the Night" is a short tells the story about this young narrator going through a rough patch in her life. The narrator describes how there are so many horrible events happening to her and her parents. She's been in a mental hospital, she's suicidal,she cuts her wrists, her father killed her mother, her father killed himself.

==Mama's Baby, Papa's Slavery? The Problem and Promise of Mothering in Octavia E. Butler's “Bloodchild” == This article explains how the humans in the story are actually victims are a unique type of slavery. ==Changing Bodies in the Fiction of Octavia Butler: Slaves, Aliens, and Vampires ==

==An Interview with Octavia E. Butler ==