The Reapers are the Angels by Alden Bell

Author:Alden Bell [Bell, Alden]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
Published: 2010-08-02T03:00:00+00:00

LATER, IN the car, she puts a tub of the berries on Maury’s lap.

Eat up. You’ll like em. You can eat that whole tub if you want—it’s for you. I got us each one. Go on.

She takes one and puts it in her mouth to show him.

Mmm. I ain’t had bingberries in I don’t know how long. That Albert, he may have been a scoundrel all told, but he knew how to raise himself some crops, didn’t he? Go on, eat one.

Maury puts one of the berries in his mouth and a sour expression comes into his face. He opens his mouth wide as though hoping the thing will fly away on its own.

What’s the matter, you don’t like it? I swear, you got no feeling for the finer things in life, you big dummy. That’s a project for you to work on. All right, spit it out. Here, here’s a rag. Try not to make such a awful mess everything you do.

He spits the berry out and scrubs the rag across his tongue, but he’s still cringing afterward and he begins a low moan like crying except without the tears.

All right, she says. Hush up now.

The moan goes on long and low.

Hush up I said. Goddarnit, you would of thought I poisoned you. Here, drink some of that lemonade, I know you like that. But don’t drink it all up or I sure enough will leave you by the side of the road. You got that, Maury?

He drinks, and the moaning goes away. His gaze goes blank again.

Lord, Maury, you’re a big slobbery mess of devilment, ain’t you? You better hope Jeb and Jeanie Duchamp know what to do with you—cause they’re your last chance. I’m depositin you there no matter what.

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