Gangster Fallacies: The Hand of the Dead Body by James Brown Iv & Mary McBeth

Author:James Brown Iv & Mary McBeth [Brown, James Iv & McBeth, Mary]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Literature & Fiction, United States, African American, Mystery; Thriller & Suspense, Thrillers & Suspense, Crime, 90 Minutes (44-64 Pages), Crime Fiction
Amazon: B015JJ0MYA
Publisher: James Brown IV
Published: 2015-09-17T04:00:00+00:00

Mama Gibson

Mary Gibson was busy doing what she normally did on Friday nights, cleaning offices in Mission Valley. The brick building on Camino Del La Reina South—which sat behind a football stadium that both the San Diego Chargers and the National Football League had deemed obsolete—was her last stop for the night. She pushed her cart, which held a big, lime-green trash can and several accessories needed to clean the empty offices, down a long corridor, stopping every few feet to enter a room to empty the trash.

Mama Gibson, as she was affectionately called, was a gorgeous fifty year old woman, who still maintained the look barely north of forty, with her coffee-bean colored skin displaying nary a flaw. She was a big-boned woman who carried her weight well and always dressed appropriately to mask the extra pounds that had brought her ridicule for most of her life. She graduated from Crawford High School, and led a mostly nondescript life before Maya was born. She wasn’t a troublemaker, a partier, nor did she indulge in drugs. She was just an lonely soul hitching a ride on the third rock from the Sun prior to becoming a mother.

By the time Marlon was born, she was working two jobs to support her kids, and thanks to the assistance of her extended family, she never needed much support from the government aside from a couple of isolated periods of financial distress. She felt it was important for her to raise her children without the helpful hand of the man, unlike some Black mothers who had gotten addicted to the free money, setting a bad example for their children by leading them to believe that living off the government was an inalienable right—and an indirect disbursement of slavery reparations.

Ms. Gibson approached the last room on her shift and noticed the lights were still on as they usually were at this time. She glanced into the window and recognized the comfortable face greeting her. It was Loretta, a senior financial officer who usually was the last person to leave the entire building. She was roughly the same age as Mary, but looked much older. “How many times have I tol’ you I want you outta here when I get to your office?” Mama Gibson facetiously asked as she entered the door.

“I know. I know,” Loretta said. She quickly followed with a wicked laugh, which sounded like a howling witch flying in the sky. “Well, you know I can’t leave without seeing you.”

The women had built a close and spiritually supportive relationship over the past three years. Being heavy-set, Southern Baptist-born single mothers was what brought them together. Understanding each other’s struggle—race notwithstanding—made them sisters. Their similar backgrounds forged an unbreakable bond for when one was down or going through some issues, the other was there to pick her up. Tonight, Loretta wanted to reprise a discussion from the night before regarding her son who was having problems transitioning from a recent divorce and was now living with her.

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