If Dying Was All
“At least fifteen of them.
Easy parked his car on the road outside the Peaceable Kingdom #2 cemetery and walked up over low, rolling hills. At Easy’s back, down a four hundred foot cliffside, was the ocean and the San Amaro beach, clear and quiet in the early morning sunlight.
In the oak trees on the inside of the wall three little boys were climbing. The topmost, a ten-year-old Negro in a pale blue sailor suit, leaped for a branch and missed it. “Shit, oh, dear,” he said, tumbling down halfway ...to the ground before he caught a new hold.
“Okay, cut,” said a patient voice from up among the few tombstones.
A little, blonde girl in a polka dot pinafore looked up into the oak and called, “You dumb jigaboo, you screw up every take.”
“Kids, kids,” said the patient-voiced man. “Listen, it’s never too young to learn professional ethics. Kids, we don’t criticize our fellow actors. Remember that, Marylee.”
“Eighteen takes on the dumb shot,” complained the little blonde Marylee.MoreLess
Easy parked his car on the road outside the Peaceable Kingdom #2 cemetery and walked up over low, rolling hills. At Easy’s back, down a four hundred foot cliffside, was the ocean and the San Amaro beach, clear and quiet in the early morning sunlight.
In the oak trees on the inside of the wall three little boys were climbing. The topmost, a ten-year-old Negro in a pale blue sailor suit, leaped for a branch and missed it. “Shit, oh, dear,” he said, tumbling down halfway ...to the ground before he caught a new hold.
“Okay, cut,” said a patient voice from up among the few tombstones.
A little, blonde girl in a polka dot pinafore looked up into the oak and called, “You dumb jigaboo, you screw up every take.”
“Kids, kids,” said the patient-voiced man. “Listen, it’s never too young to learn professional ethics. Kids, we don’t criticize our fellow actors. Remember that, Marylee.”
“Eighteen takes on the dumb shot,” complained the little blonde Marylee.MoreLess
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