FLESH AND THE DEVIL by Kola Boof by Kola Boof

Author:Kola Boof [Boof, Kola]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Atlantic Library Digital
Published: 2010-08-04T04:00:00+00:00

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Shane took RooAmber to the wharf on D Street and they had a wickedly delicious seafood lunch. First, he got them a huge bag of spicy shrimp, which they picked and munched, removing the shells and savoring the meat--then he got them brown paper bags stuffed with fried soft shell crabs, some separate crab legs covered in bay seasoning and two frosty cold beers.

They sat next to the river eating and talking merrily.

“There’s no city like chocolate city”, RooAmber said.

“I think you’re right”, said Shane.

“And do tell me. What was a rich Georgetown negro like you doing at Wilson High, Shane Roberts?”

Shane laughed. “Well, I wanted to feel like I was blacker--you know--connected to the real folks and not the bougie Jack and Jill set. I had grown up admiring the writings of Malcolm X and Richard Wright. Plus my best friend Clayton was a student at Wilson, so I followed him. People forgot I was a rich blue vein society boy once I kicked some asses on the football field.”

“This magazine sounds really exciting, Shane.”

“Of course it does--there’s nothing on the market like it yet.”

Shane’s plan was to start a magazine called “The Nappy Rhino”. It was to be a black men’s outdoors magazine, featuring glossy color photos of black tribesmen hunting lions in Africa, Jamaican men catching swordfish in the devil’s triangle, black Spaniards chasing the bull in Madrid, black Peruvian men catching chiclet monkeys, and of course, American black men riding bulls in Texas, hunting deer in the midwest, bungee jumping in California and skeet shooting in New England. RooAmber thought it was an idea whose time had come.

“But”, RooAmber asked in an icy tone. “Are there going to be any black women in it? We like to do all that kinda stuff outdoors, too, and we’ve always been physical, outdoorsy women. Or are you planning to hire a bunch of white and biracial bikini babes from BET music videos and exploit them by having them pose Sports Illustrated style as little fantasy pussy points in the...”

“RooAmber, why are you coming at me like that?”

Shane told her, “I’m offering you a job that will require you to be the very person who makes those decisions. It’s a job that will require you to be closer to me than anyone in my life...even my wife.”

RooAmber licked the bay seasoning on her lips and shook her head.

“I can’t do this.” Last night. It wet between them.

“Excuse me?”

“You’re a married man, I’m a married woman, and it’s obvious to me that we’re on the verge of making a very stupid mistake.”

Shane stared at her, impressed by her refusal to play games. He nodded and said, “I spent all night thinking about you, and by the look on your face, you spent all night thinking about me. Now I’m scared, RooAmber. Because I love my wife with all my heart, and yet every since I ran into you yesterday, I haven’t been able to get you out of my mind. If

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