Dear Shameless Death by Latife Tekin

Author:Latife Tekin [Tekin, Latife]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780714524009
Publisher: Marion Boyars
Published: 2014-01-04T08:00:00+00:00

The next morning Mahmut got up and headed off towards the advertising agency that stood on a long, long street lined with enormous shops. Craving a lunch of bread-wrapped meatballs, he set aside the money his boss had given him for travel expenses, snatched up the invoices and trotted from one district to another delivering them. When he stepped back into the office, breathless but joyful, he was surprised, and blushed at the sight of the blonde, blue-eyed girl who worked there sitting on the boss’s lap. Angrily the boss bounced the girl off his lap and, in a rage, kicked Mahmut out of the office. Thereafter, whenever Mahmut returned from delivering the orders, he sat down to wait in a wooden chair in front of the entrance until the evening, as he had been instructed to.

In addition to his delivery round, Mahmut received some money from his boss each day to go and buy cigarettes. Mahmut called on Crip Arm, who led him down dark alleys to a house with a low ceiling where he wrapped up the boxes that Mahmut then tucked under his arm and took back to his boss.

Mahmut’s errands soon increased as he started supplying cigarettes for the other bosses, office girls and men in the same block as his office. Supplemented by his cigarette deliveries, business boomed. After Mahmut struck a deal with Crip Arm for a commission per pack, his earnings doubled. He no longer had to go on foot to afford his bread-wrapped meatballs for lunch, for he could now pay his travel as well. If he passed by a movie poster that made him sigh to see the film, he had the price of a ticket. Soon Crip Arm offered to make him a business partner. He met with Mahmut and tried to persuade him to leave his job at the advertising agency so that he could spend all his time delivering cigarettes and selling bingo cards. Mahmut mulled over the proposal for a few days, and the more he pondered it the more intimidating he found the pockmarks on Crip Arm’s face and the dark, low-ceilinged house where he wrapped up the cigarettes. In the end he turned down Crip Arm’s offer and stuck with his job at the office but continued with his cigarette deliveries. He carried wads of cash with him to Crip Arm’s place, wrapped up the cigarettes and passed them on either in packets or singly.

One day he didn’t find Crip Arm at his place and, after stuffing all the cash in his pocket, he wandered down a side street in search of him. Then he took a seat at a coffee-house to wait for Crip Arm to show up. He crossed his legs, lit up a cigarette and ordered a glass of tea. Then, as he sat there sipping his tea, the devil gave him a little nudge. Taking the wads of money out of his pocket, he licked his fingertip and started to make a big show of counting it all, flashing the notes in front of the whole coffee-house crowd.

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