Earthly Powers: The Adventure Begins by DC Alexander

Author:DC Alexander [Alexander, DC]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-02-19T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

P eople showed up at my house and wanted me to do things for them. I’d become real popular, I couldn’t get a minute to myself, somebody always had something they needed right then. I had Carl put out the word to everybody that I was going to take a day off. No point calling or coming over. I was gone and I wouldn’t have a phone with me on Wednesday.

Amanda came over with four hundred dollars and some change to pay me for finding that boy, she said “I don’t know how you did it but I seen what you did, my boy was good as finished and you found him and pulled him right back from the grave and fixed him up. This aint much but it’s all I got right now, I’ll get you more next month, and if there is anything I can do for you all you got to do is say it.”

“Amanda, I aint gonna charge no four hundred dollars for something like that. Don’t tell anybody and we’ll just call it even; if I need something I’ll call on you and that’s better than money. There aint many people willin to go in a hole like that with me. Is Eddy doin’ ok now? I intended to come over and check him out.”

She said “Eddy’s doin fine, still a little tired but none of them places you fixed are even red. The people in the neighborhood took this money up, it aint mine and I aint gonna keep it. Here, this here is your money.” she pushed the wadded bills at me.

“I’ll take a hundred then, and you use the rest for medicine and stuff for them kids. I know you need it. Far as anybody knows, I took it all, and that’s the way it is, just hush about it now.”

She got up and come over and handed me some money and hugged me, then she left. I could always use a hundred dollars.

I made it through the next couple days. It finally came up Wednesday. I didn’t intend to do anything for anybody on my day off. Carl didn’t come over and I wasn’t going to answer the door. I went out back and enjoyed the peace and quiet, barefooted and feeling good to just stand there. The birds made bird noises, I couldn’t hear any traffic. It was like I was out in the woods.

My back yard was big, I could have another house back there if somebody was crazy enough to want it. There was a shed back there at one time; I remember they used it to work on cars when I was real young. It got so bad off and rotten Grammaw had it torn down to the ground. It left a bare spot where it used to be that still hadn’t grown over like the rest of the yard.

Variegated hedges grew big and wild all around the yard, better than a fence, twenty feet tall and more.

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