Dixie Divas by Brown Virginia

Author:Brown, Virginia [Brown, Virginia]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 978098217565
Publisher: BelleBooks - A
Published: 2010-03-31T04:00:00+00:00

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“You look a little tired, Trinket,” Bitty said, “are you getting enough sleep?”

We sat in Budgie’s having coffee and blueberry cobbler. Bitty was armed with a pug, so we had to sit over in the smoking section that consisted of a metal screen and two tables. No one ever sat there. They smoked wherever they liked.

“It’s not the sleep, though more would help.” I pushed around a piece of crust and three blueberries left on my plate. Maybe I should start a diet. I already had to shop in the Tall section for clothes. Did I really want to shop in the Big and Tall section?

Bitty sighed. “I know. It’s all this worrying about the pilgrimage. I just wish Sanders had waited until he signed those papers before killing Philip and running off.”

I looked up at her. She was feeding Chitling a piece of pastry crust. The dog made sounds similar to those of a pig sniffing out truffles, but finally decided the crust was safe to eat.

“Bitty, do you ever think about the possibility of being convicted of murder?”

“Not really. Jackson Lee told me to let him think about that, so I do. Isn’t that right, you precious thing?”

The last was directed to the dog, of course.

“When are you taking that dog back to Luann Carey?”

“Soon. I talked to her this morning. She called to check up on Chen Ling, make sure she’s been eating right and taking her medicine. Luann’s very particular about who she lets take one of her dogs, you know. That girl will stand up to a two hundred pound man and give him what-for if she even thinks for a minute that any dog is being mistreated. I’ve seen her do it. Riley Simpson did, too. He kicked a skinny stray one day over by Phillips’ and Luann nearly took his head off. First time I’ve ever seen a two hundred pound man cower and run.”

“That can’t be true. Your second husband used to cower and run all the time.”

Bitty made a piffling sound. “That man couldn’t run. He got too fat to hardly walk. Only five-seven, and two-hundred-sixty-five pounds. It was like sleeping with Namu. Nemo? You know, the whale. And forget sex, unless I wanted to climb on top, but that was like riding a big old beach ball with a tiny little knob sticking up. Sometimes I had to turn on the light to find it.”

“Keep talking like that and I’ll lose my cobbler.”

“It does conjure up some awful images, doesn’t it?” Bitty looked up at me and smiled. “I still wouldn’t have divorced him if he hadn’t been so mean when he got sloshed. Bourbon seems to do that to some men. Makes their weenies limp, too. Try doing anything with that.”

I remembered Delbert Anderson quite differently, but of course, I hadn’t been married to him or even lived in Holly Springs during that marriage. There had been enough witnesses to attest to the fact that Del

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