Midnight Robber by Nalo Hopkinson

Author:Nalo Hopkinson
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: sf
ISBN: 0759582025
Publisher: Warner Books
Published: 2001-03-14T23:00:00+00:00

“I not leaving you!”

“She not going anywhere with you, you pissant wretch!”

“Go, Melonhead, or it just go be worse!”

“You sure?”

“Yes! I go come talk to you later.”

Melonhead took an unsure step away, waiting to see what would happen. Antonio quieted, stood weaving on the stairs and mumbling incoherent curses at Melonhead.

“Tan-Tan,” Melonhead called, “I go give it a hour for you and he to talk. Then I coming back with Daddy and the sheriff and we taking you from here.”

Oh, please Nanny, yes. “Go, I say!”

He walked away backwards, slowly, keeping a stern eye on Antonio. Antonio found some energy and threw the bottle top at him. Melonhead ducked clear, turned and jogged down the lane.

“Come Daddy, make I clean up your feet.”

Antonio grabbed her arm, so tight she felt the skin bruise same time. “Rutting whore!” He backhanded her across the face. She felt her teeth meet in her tongue.

“No, Daddy!”

“Every time I turn my back, you making time with some man! Like you turn big woman now? Eh? You smelling yourself?”

“No, Daddy! Please, Daddy! It ain’t go happen again!”

But Antonio dragged her into the living room. All Tan-Tan pulled she couldn’t break his grip.

“Blasted slut with a slut for a mother. You ain’t too big for me to tan your behind for you!” With one hand, Antonio unbuckled his heavy leather belt and pulled it out from his pants. He doubled it up in his hand and cracked it against her shins. The pain was like a knife cut.

“Daddy!” she shrieked.

He beat her across her calves, her thighs. She could feel the welts rising. She screamed, but Melonhead was too far away to hear.

As he whipped her Antonio was dragging her by the arm through the house, into her bedroom. He threw her on the bed.

“Is man you want? Is man? I go show you what man could do for you!”

No. No. She couldn’t face this again, after years free from it. He kicked her legs apart, yanked up her skirt, tore her underwear off. He pushed into her. She bawled out for the tearing pain between her legs. He grunted, “I is man too, you know! Is this you want! Is this?”

Something was scraping at her waist. Her hand found it. The scabbard. With the knife inside. A roaring started up in her ears. It couldn’t have been she. It must have been the Robber Queen who pulled out the knife. Antonio raised up to shove into the person on the bed again. It must have been the Robber Queen, the outlaw woman, who quick like a snake got the knife braced at her breastbone just as Antonio slammed his heavy body right onto the blade.

“Uhh!” Antonio jerked like a fish on a hook. He collapsed onto her. His weight drove the knife handle backwards against her breastbone, gouging upwards until it was under her chin. Antonio’s head fell on Tan-Tan’s own. She screamed. His body convulsed, then relaxed. Thick blood gushed out of his mouth. She heard his bowels loose in death.

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