Water Street
““We'll put them on ice before we leave, and have a cold supper on this hot night.”
“And Annie will be sure to make us a pie.” Bird hummed as she snipped off a couple of aloe shoots for old Mrs. Cunningham's legs. They were going to her apartment at the other end of Water Street to bathe her and make her comfortable.
It was quiet in the kitchen, peaceful. Da slept in the bedroom after the graveyard shift at the bridge, Annie was at the factory banging slabs of wood into boxes, sometimes ...banging purple blisters into her fingers, and Hughie had taken the ferry over to Manhattan before any of them were awake, to work at the market.
She folded the sharp green aloe shoots into a piece of paper and tucked it into Mama's bag, then piled up the old newspapers to take down to the ash cans in the areaway.
“You're happy today, Bird,” Mama said from the stove.
“I like going to Mrs.MoreLess
“And Annie will be sure to make us a pie.” Bird hummed as she snipped off a couple of aloe shoots for old Mrs. Cunningham's legs. They were going to her apartment at the other end of Water Street to bathe her and make her comfortable.
It was quiet in the kitchen, peaceful. Da slept in the bedroom after the graveyard shift at the bridge, Annie was at the factory banging slabs of wood into boxes, sometimes ...banging purple blisters into her fingers, and Hughie had taken the ferry over to Manhattan before any of them were awake, to work at the market.
She folded the sharp green aloe shoots into a piece of paper and tucked it into Mama's bag, then piled up the old newspapers to take down to the ash cans in the areaway.
“You're happy today, Bird,” Mama said from the stove.
“I like going to Mrs.MoreLess
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