Alligator and Other Stories by Dima Alzayat

Author:Dima Alzayat
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pan Macmillan UK

WITNESS 2 – NAME WITHHELD (1939)

It was just two of us in our cell when they brought him in and walked him past us. The other man hissed at me from across the cell to keep quiet and I did but I stole glances. They can keep us from talking but they can’t keep us from seeing is what my grandad always said. By the time he was fifty he was well near blind though, so take from that what you will.

This group of white men – criminals, Klansmen, good Samaritans – roared and hollered like they were a show at the county fair, one encouraging the other, each promising to do worse than the man next to him. That was when I heard the sheriff telling them to quiet down. ‘Get yourselves together,’ he shouted and they did.

They seemed to have a good laugh at the man inside then but to me it sounded like he might’ve gotten in a few good punches. Then it was the sound of their boots kicking and their grunts and spit until the sheriff again shouted at them to go. I heard them carry him out but I kept my head down. Not because the other man told me to. I just didn’t wanna see no one with his head kicked in, knowing his son was being kept in the back and unable to help him none. With them gone the sheriff walked back to his office without giving us a glance. He didn’t look up even a single time to see if we were watching.

Tuesday, January 15, 1929

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