That isn’t true, what she said. It isn’t true that I need nobody. I always wanted somebody to belong with, not somebody I belonged to, and somebody who belonged with me. When you grow up as a slave, and every day they tell you they’ll…

I couldn’t persuade Mary to anything so vulgar as to blog, but she wrote a note on thick, cream-colored stationary with a stationer’s watermark and her name embossed in the corner. By way of revenge, here is the picture I drew of her. Here is…

Hey, there! How do? Lonnie Carter — pleased to meet you. I heard my buddy Tiny telling about me and Leona, and how she’s a hard-shell Baptist and all and I ain’t. I know Tiny don’t do this, but some guys act like Leona wears…