The Duppy
“Perched like a grass tit’s nest on the edge of the road, it boasted just the right mix of ramshackle, grime, and stink, and might have been glimpsed anywhere sagging pitchy-patchy against a hillside on earthly Jamaica.
We stepped onto the shaky wooden floor of the porch past a mauger dog who bared a dose of teeth at us as we skirted him and entered the smelly interior.
Inside, slouched behind the counter and squinting at a newspaper, was a big fatty woman whose frizzy head was bound with a cali...co wrap and speckled by a swarm of flies. She glanced up at our footsteps and beamed at Hopeton.
“You catch anodder one!” she roared boisterously, creasing the paper and laying it to one side as she prepared to transact official business.
“How you do, Miss B?” Hopeton greeted her courteously, adding with a nod that, yes, he was bringing in a newly dead Jamaican duppy for heavenly registration, but he was in a hurry and could she please look up the name “Taddeus Baps” in the official government book of arriving souls and sign a receipt crediting my delivery to his account.MoreLess
We stepped onto the shaky wooden floor of the porch past a mauger dog who bared a dose of teeth at us as we skirted him and entered the smelly interior.
Inside, slouched behind the counter and squinting at a newspaper, was a big fatty woman whose frizzy head was bound with a cali...co wrap and speckled by a swarm of flies. She glanced up at our footsteps and beamed at Hopeton.
“You catch anodder one!” she roared boisterously, creasing the paper and laying it to one side as she prepared to transact official business.
“How you do, Miss B?” Hopeton greeted her courteously, adding with a nod that, yes, he was bringing in a newly dead Jamaican duppy for heavenly registration, but he was in a hurry and could she please look up the name “Taddeus Baps” in the official government book of arriving souls and sign a receipt crediting my delivery to his account.MoreLess
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