Miss Hazel and the Rosa Parks League by Odell Jonathan

Author:Odell, Jonathan [Odell, Jonathan]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Maiden Lane Press
Published: 2015-02-03T16:00:00+00:00

Floyd stuck close to the sheriff after the meeting broke up, pretending to be going in the same direction. As Billy Dean reached for the door of his cruiser, Floyd stopped in his tracks and snapped his fingers. “Sheriff!” he called out. “Something come to me this here second. Something that must of slipped my mind before.” Floyd hurried over to where the sheriff stood waiting for his revelation.

Floyd began talking in a rush. “Delia was at the dealership one day last week looking to trade in, and she said she sure loved that Mercury Montclair we had on the side lot, but then she said she didn’t know if the fella she was seeing would like it, and I told her why not surprise him and see if he don’t, and she said he hated surprises and that he had threatened to kill her over the last one she give him.”

Floyd waited for the thousand follow-up questions he had practiced the answers to. The sheriff looked at him unblinking. “Well, how come I didn’t bring it up before,” Floyd said, proceeding with the interrogation he had imagined, “was I didn’t think she was serious about it. You know how you can get so mad at somebody you love, you liable to say things you don’t really mean in a million years? I was thinking it was that kind of thing. How come me not to mention it before now.”

Floyd knew he was talking too much for an innocent man, and his face began to burn hot. He just couldn’t seem to get his mouth stopped. “You know what I mean,” he rambled on. “I thought it was one of those things, like we all do. Like, ‘I’m gonna kill you, Hazel.’ You know what I’m saying, don’t you, Billy Dean?”

Floyd was finally able to get himself to shut up. The sheriff studied him coolly. After a long moment he reached to open his door and turned back to Floyd. Without a hint of emotion, Billy Dean said, “I’m sure you’re right about that. Done the exact same thing myself on occasion.”

The sheriff drove off, leaving Floyd on the sidewalk a free man.

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