Farewell, Amethystine by Walter Mosley

Author:Walter Mosley [MOSLEY, WALTER]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2024-06-05T00:00:00+00:00

I sat down at the end of a long bench and stared at the concrete floor, practicing minding my own business.

“Are you my daddy’s friend?” a voice asked.

It was a girl-child, seven or possibly eight years old. Not yet five feet tall, she had dark skin and maybe eleven pigtails that were tied back. Her face was sleek, like some very cute predator’s—a child of Man, one might have said.

“Who is your father?” I asked.

“Clarence D. Simpson the third.”

Over her tentacled head I could see what was probably her mother—watching.

“I don’t think I know him,” I said. “What they call you?”

“Marla.”

“Marla Simpson?”

Her grin showed one missing tooth. She had on jeans and a red-and-blue lumberjack shirt that looked like it was made for a doll.

“Uh-huh,” she told me. “They arrested him, um, because they said that he was in this big place and some things got stoled. But nobody saw him take nuttin’ an’ nobody could prove it.”

There were angry tears in the little girl’s eyes.

“Is that your mother over there?” I asked, pointing at the woman who was watching me.

“Uh-huh.”

I brought out my wallet, from which I retrieved a five-dollar bill and a gold-embossed business card.

“Give these to your mama and tell her I said she should call the woman on the card.”

Marla grabbed the strange treasure and went running back to her little brood.

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