Tony Dunbar - Tubby Dubonnet 06 - Lucky Man
“He lived in the crawl space underneath a shotgun house on Burdette Street. He kept to himself and only slipped out at night to raid the Dumpster at the grocery store a few blocks away. Sometimes days passed when he did not emerge, but through a crack under the front porch, he could watch the comings and goings of people’s feet on the sidewalk. Most of the time he just hid.
Purvis sometimes caught a rat, and once he had trapped a cat and eaten it. His drinking supply was a cold-water pipe un...der the kitchen that dripped into a pet-food can. He could hear the woman’s footsteps on the wooden floor above his head. He could also listen in on her conversations, though they didn’t make much sense to him.
Once he had lived in the upstairs, as it seemed to him, of this house, but that was a long time ago when he was married. Back before his wife had run him off with her lawyer and a dog. He was, in fact, under the impression that the woman thumping about above him was his wife, not realizing that she had moved to Thibodeaux three years before with a man who raised gourds.MoreLess
Purvis sometimes caught a rat, and once he had trapped a cat and eaten it. His drinking supply was a cold-water pipe un...der the kitchen that dripped into a pet-food can. He could hear the woman’s footsteps on the wooden floor above his head. He could also listen in on her conversations, though they didn’t make much sense to him.
Once he had lived in the upstairs, as it seemed to him, of this house, but that was a long time ago when he was married. Back before his wife had run him off with her lawyer and a dog. He was, in fact, under the impression that the woman thumping about above him was his wife, not realizing that she had moved to Thibodeaux three years before with a man who raised gourds.MoreLess
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