The Holland Family Saga 5: Ghost Town by Clever Black

Author:Clever Black [Black, Clever]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction, Urban Life, United States, African American, Urban
ISBN: 0985350997
Amazon: B00AR6Z2MS
Publisher: Clever Black Books
Published: 2012-12-20T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 18

FUKUTOO: MARY”S PRANK

It was now April of ’92, about seven months after Simon and Sandy had car-jacked, robbed and killed a young man in Madison County, Mississippi. They were now back in pocket with Twiggy and she had resumed allowing them to use her car several months back. Martha and Twiggy were still selling cocaine, but they had stopped supplying Ghost Town. That job now belonged to Peter Paul and Gina Cradle. The reason being was because a month after the car-jacking and homicide, Simon and Sandy went back to Madison County to pull another lick. Simon had found out that the guy he killed had been a ‘big timer’ in Ridgeland, Mississippi. He and Sandy found out where his home was located and scouted the place for a while and surmised that a female and a toddler were the only two staying there; they waited until the woman left for work one morning and broke into the home and found a half-kilo of cocaine and $5,000 dollars in cash. The two kept the money and gave Peter Paul and Gina Cradle the half-kilo to sell and the four would split the profit. Peter Paul then set up shop in Ambush and he and Gina Cradle were now earning good money.

Simon and Sandy, on the other hand, would steal from, or rob other hustlers who had no Folk ties out of their drugs and money and give the drugs to Peter Paul and Gina to sell and they would all get a cut. Everybody was getting paid in 1992. Martha and Twiggy, who were scoring a kilo themselves, began supplying other customers. The two women mainly dealt with people their age or older. Original gangsters, ex-pimps, and ‘hole-in-wall’ night club owners who wanted in on the action from time to time. Their clientele was low-key and quiet.

Peter Paul, Gina, Simon and Sandy were the new breeds in Ghost Town. They came of age with the attitude of “live for today because tomorrow we may die”. That attitude was fast over-taking the youth of this particular era in Ghost Town and every other neighborhood in Jackson, Mississippi and throughout the south. Albert Lee, Slim, Clark Senior, Chug-a-lug, Martha and Twiggy were the forerunners; and now only thirty-three year-olds Martha and Twiggy were still ranking members out of that group, and they were beginning to slow down themselves.

The baton was slowly being passed to Peter Paul, Gina, Simon and Sandy. And they would gladly except the street-baton from the players of the late seventies and eighties and continue to run the race and play the game of high risk/high reward, only this next generation was bolder, more violent, willing to do whatever it took to come out on top. Still, in spite of it all, they were young, and sometimes gullible. Mary’s prank would bring that side of this next generation to life.

Simon and Sandy were returning from the Galleria Mall in early April of ’92 after a shopping spree, cruising down Hanging Moss just about to turn onto Casper Drive and enter Ghost Town.

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