Off For the Sweet Hereafter by T. R. Pearson

Author:T. R. Pearson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Barking Mad Press
Published: 2011-06-09T13:32:13+00:00

The first one arrived along about October in a pink envelope and the fat Jeeter carried it from the trailer down to the chickenhouse where she gave it over to Mr. Raeford Lynch who sniffed at it and yipped once or twice and then sniffed at it again prior to giving it over to Benton Lynch who did not sniff at it or even look at it really but put it direct in his jacket pocket over the protests of his momma and the protests of his daddy who wanted to know was it a serious affection and who wanted to know did she come from nice people and who wanted to know when did it start up in the first place and who wanted to know could they meet her sometime presently to all of which Benton Lynch responded with a couple of yeses and a couple of noes and nothing much else of any utility to the fat Jeeter and nothing much else of any utility to Mr. Raeford either who chiefly was desirous to learn did Benton Lynch get some and so asked him straightaway once the fat Jeeter had struck out up the hillside and he was all set to wonder how if it was yes and to wonder why not if it was no, but it was not yes or no, was not anything but the usual vacant expression, and Mr. Raeford grew anxious and restless on account of having pondered the topic in the first place and so spat on a chicken to distract and relieve himself some.

Benton Lynch carried the pink envelope off into the woods to open it and sat down under a sweetgum tree where he extracted the pages but did not study them straight off on account of how Jane Elizabeth Firesheets had enclosed a dose of her personal scent along with them and the aroma took hold of Benton Lynch and caused him to recollect in considerable detail the milky whiteness and the plum- colored parts also, particularly the plum-colored parts, and he remembered the funny little way she had to gyrating and squirming and bouncing about and consequently he had to stand up and adjust himself in his trousers before proceeding with the actual words on the actual pages which did not convey much in the way of news or ordinary information either but took the form of questions primarily, questions about himself and about what he was doing and about who he was doing it with and about what sort of weather they were doing it in. There was some little passing reference to Chalybeate Springs and the daddy Firesheets's prospects as a tobacco farmer and slight scandalous mention of the brother Firesheets, who Jane Elizabeth did not seem to have developed a fondness for, followed by a sweltering conclusion which dealt in rather specific detail with precisely what Jane Elizabeth Firesheets would do to Benton Lynch if she could get her fingers on the parts of

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