“The Road You Take” by Jean Wolfersteig
I suppose I should’ve listened to my Gramoon when she scolded me with her old sayings.
I suppose I should’ve listened to my Gramoon when she scolded me with her old sayings.
As usual, Deadman has left me a car at the airport, and, for the first time since Irma hit, I bump along the rutted streets of Road Town.
Gus sipped lemongrass tea from a foam cup. It was still dark. His secondhand truck idled outside the market as four men clambered into its tray. This was where he picked up workers for the day—mostly men who came to the island at night in quiet boats. The men clutched grease-stained paper bags and chattered loudly between bites of johnnycakes and various patties. Four men got into the truck’s tray. Gus was expecting five . . .
I been told their words will steal my heart . . .