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Dire Street

 

 (An Erotic Horror Story)

 by

Bad Robot

(aka Hunsi)

 

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Chapter 1:

The Husband Pleads his Case to his Jury of One

 

"John," Mary said. "You said so yourself.  The Miller’s were just like us, and look what happened to them!"

 

"Brads mistake," John said, responding to his wife’s critique.  "He's a dreamer who went into it with rose colored glasses.  Me, I'm a pragmatist.  He was looking to revitalize whereas it is mine to jump right in and scoop up all the zero interest money the government is willing to dish out to tear down, drain the cesspool and rebuild the lower east side of the Harbor district to its former glory."

 

"Trust me, Mary, give me a year, two tops, and I promise you that all those fools who see the potential as I do, but haven’t the balls to jump in now will come flooding in with big money to buy up anything and everything they can get their hands on. 

 

“And you know what is going to be on top of that list?  That’s right,” he answered for her, “My newly restored 20 unit tenement at 99 Dire st.  Ground zero of what was once such a glorious place with such an illustrious past that is now but a home for the rats and the junkies in he heart of the Bowery. But best of all, you get all that history, and charm, plus the convenience of living just a mile a way from the skyscrapers downtown that house the captains of industry for all the Northeast.”

 

“Money, money, money, you hearing me wife?” he said to Mary while tapping the side of his head.  "Now, wife, what have you for dinner?" he asked while walking over to the stove grinning like a man who just wow a multi-million dollar lottery.

 

Then after lifting the lid on the pot boiling atop the stove, “Stew again!  Oh no, this will not do!”

 

"Stay right there, don't move, Mary, I'll be right back with some steaks.  It's Prime Rib for you from now on, Mrs. Soon-to-be-owner of the once famed Rose Winifred home on Dire Street, ground zero of $$$."

 

"Now, you just sit a bit and give me 10 minutes to run to Philli-Joe's and roust us up some of the best damn steaks to be found anywhere."

 

And so he did, and she did, sitting and waiting and waiting until such time she need rise up from her chair to respond to a knock on the door.

 

"Mr. Johnson,” she said to the pale, colorless man standing at her door.  “You look like you’ve just seen a ghost?”

 

"Mary, come quick!  There's been an accident!"

 

"An accident?"

 

"Yes, an accident.  It’s John!"  He said, gasping and snorting, clearly at a loss for breath.  "Come, quick," he managed through a spasm of rasping and Wheezing while taking hold of her hand, and pulled her out the door. "I saw it, Mary, I saw it with my own eyes."

 

"What Mr. Johnson, What did you see?"

 

"The cab, Mary, the cab!  It jumped the curb and mowed down John and three others on its way through the front window of Philli-Joe's Gourmet Meats!"

 

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Chapter 2

Two Weeks latter, Meeting her attorney ...

 

"Good afternoon, Mary," Mr.Taylor, her attorney, said while extending his hand to her as she entered.  Please have a seat," he then said while seeking to reclaim possession of his own.

 

"Thank you for coming in.  I know how hard all this has been on you and the kids.  However, something has come up that simply must be address, and I mean pronto," he said as he tossed the morning edition of the Philli Gazette across his desk for her to see the full front page spread, bearing the headline:

 

                                                                              Gov’t reneges on promise!

                                                                 Won't Back Old Harbor Redevelopment

 

"You know what that mean, Mary?  It means that based on the assumption that the purchase of the property on Dire Street was going to be substancially underwritten by federal redevelopment money, he went out and hocked the shop to buy what is now a worthless piece of property.”

 

"In short, that means you are facing bankruptancy.  Your home, all your assets gone, leaveing you and your children out on the street.

 

"Oh my god," she wept, her face buried in her hands.

 

"I'm sorry, Mary, I truly am, but I see no way out of it.  Umm, well, that is . . .”

 

“What?”

 

“Unless you try to make a go of it on your own before the bank to whom you are indebted, sets the legal process in motion to recall the loan.”

 

"I can do that?"

 

"Yes, as I said, if you were to do so before the legal process begins.  But, before you even start to consider it, I feel it is mine to inform you that I took it upon my own to research the prior history of the property."

 

"Well John did tell me some about it.  That it was once the home of a much loved opera star by the name of Rose Winifred, and that on any given Sunday she could be seen standing upon her terrace throwing rose petals down on the street as her countless fans strolled past.

 

“He also happened to mention that in the 1927 spring edition of Variety Magazine, it was her home that was voted the single most important places to see and be seen in all of Philadelphia.

 

"Yes, but did he also tell you that Dire Street was once called Primrose Lane, and that the name change only came about after Madam Winifred was found hanging from the rafters?  Or that the follow-up investigation of the incident found neither a table, nor a chair, nor anything movable in the room upon which she could stand to hang herself?  And more puzzling yet, why was it that they found her with face twisted in agony, yet she held out her hands, palms up, in front of her bosom to form a cradle for the Turtle Dove that still lie nested in her palms when found some hours later after her death."

 

"The juxtaposition being such that it still stirs questions about the supernatural, omens, evil Spirits and such that to this day still scared the holy crap out of everyone,  and as a result, the crowds that once flooded the street left it abandon, making way for the grift and outright criminals that to this day still use it as a place to hide away."

 

"The truth is, after her death, Primrose Lane just sank into one big, nasty spiral downward that to this day, 3 generations later, still ebbs on.  Only now, the smell of the rot is such that ever the name change from Primrose Lane to the Dire Street has changed not a thing.

 

“So take my advice, Mary, and forget it.  It's called Dire Street! And no matter how bright the light you shine, nothing is going to stave off the darkness.”

 

 

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Chap 3

 

Moving in:

Mary turns on the lovelight . . .

 

Mary sat in her kitchen looking out her bay window and on to the street below with chin in hands and nursing a cup of tea. The sky was gray, and the damp and the chill in the air was rife with the smell of decay, just as she found it to be every morning since her move into the old Winifred place on Dire Street in the heart of the old harbor distict.

 

The smell of decay, thick and pervasive, had her feeling decidedly queasy.  No more so than when she looked down upon the squalid street below.

 

Just to the right of her vision, beneath the flashing blue neon, stood "Bosco's Peep show Arcade," and beside that sqalid looking place stood a monument build to enshrine the word nasty: "Bosco's Smutty Lady Strip Club. A place where the naked ladies in the window would shimmy & shake their tassiled tits and spread their legs wide enough to see their tonsils to entice the crowd mulling about outside to come in.

 

And there was “CHICO'S Pool Hall and liquors."  A place where the winos’ and addicts were only out numbered by the thugs who were putting the screws  to anyone who looked to have the ready cash to put in their own wallet.

 

It was just at moment that Bobbi and Robbi, her kids, walked in on her, shaking her out of her malaise.

 

"Morning mommy," they said, in sync, as they did in everything.  In fact, they were so alike that when one sneezed the other would blow their nose.  But they were twins after all, born but an hour apart.  Bobbi her eldest, and Robbi, her forever present son who shaddowed her daughter's every steps.

 

"Can we have pancakes for breakfast?"

 

"No, you're already dressed and you'll end up with syrup all over your blouse," she said as her sought to straighten her daughter's blouse while Robbi took it upon himself to straighten his own.  Then after a foot tapping, hands-on-hips-stare from his mother, he took it upon himself to retie the drawstring on his Elsa Berry white linen shorts.

 

“There, much better,” she said, ruffling his hair.

 

It was then that she heard someone hustling up the steps, and followed shortly thereafter by a knock upon the door.

 

Startled by the unexpected, she quickly adjusted herself and then set things right with her matching book-end kids. "There is milk in the frig and box of Ginger Critters in the cupboard, and as I've warned you about before, under no circumstance are either of you to look out that window,"  she said quite firmly while pointing toward the bay window that looked down upon the vomitous human slime pit below.

 

Once they gave their, "cross my heart," pledge of reassurance, she advanced hurriedly to the foyer to see who it was.

 

Looking out the peep hole in the door she saw a black man peering back at her, and in his hand, the 'For Rent' sign she had stapled to the door frame just an hour before.

 

For a long moment she just stood there while running through a mental check list, comparing him to the human slime across the street who frightened her half to death.  In truth, just the thought of one of those animals might find their way into her home was enough to send her running to the bankruptcy court with kids in hand to expunged her debt and hopeing that by days end, she’d at least have enouth left to feed her kids.

 

The man outside standing at her door surely looked the part.  Dress as he was from his skull Cap down to his boots in black.  Then when you add in the dreads, presto, that living, breathing human black monolith of a man standing outside her door with her’For Rent’sign in hand, looked every bit the thug who was noless likely to rape her as he was eat her.

 

The fact is, the mere sight of him sent a shiver up her spine, and caused her breath to grow shallow.  Though still with her wits about her, she remained quite cognizant of the fact that she had but dollars left to spend on essentials, least her children be left to stave if a prospective renter didn't appear soon.

 

So, summoning up her courage, she opened the door,  if only enough to squeeze her head through.

 

"I need me a place to rent, mam, and I hear you got some."

 

"Not interested," she said while shutting the door in his face.

 

"Whoa-whoa-lady," he said as he put his foot in the door looking a tabbit piqued.  "What's your problem, lady? I ain't done nothing.  I perfumed up, picked my dreads, and even borrowed me a pair of Jockey's from Dante to tuck in my junk,” he said, while grabbing hold of his crotch.

 

"So you see, I ain't given you no reason to shut the door in my face.  That is, of course, unless you just don’t like niggars!"

 

"No, I didn’t say that!”She bristled.

 

“Say what?”

 

“The N-word’.  I would never say that,” she replied, not knowing how to respond to being called a racist.  An accusation that was tantamount to a crime in the burbs from which she was a product.

 

“That’s okay, lady.  “I say, you say niggar, either way I’m cool with it,” he replied, with a grin that showed two tons of teeth.

 

"Yes, well, that’s gentlemanly of you,” she followed suit, now feeling somewhat disarmed.

 

“You mean, I don’t look like I’m gonna eat you, hmm?”

 

“No, no you don’t.  Look, why don't you come on in and I'll show you what I have?"

 

"Yes, mam, thank you kindly,”he replied, while making his way to step in, but not before attempting to hide away the roach in his mouth beneath his tongue for safe keeping.

 

 

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Stepping into the foyer his senses were immediately assaulted by the smell of molding wallpaper and the rot of Drywall.

 

Noting one paticularly nasty looking blister of wallpaper bubbling up and off of the wall, he reached out to peel back the corner, revealing as he did the damp and moldy hardwood wall beneath.

 

"Damn, where is all this moisture coming from?” he asked her as she grimaced, her face red with mortification.

 

"I don't know," she replied, “We just move in yesterday, and with the kids and all, I feel mysef luck to have just found my way to the kitchen from my bedroom.”

 

“Why are you here suffering in this rat trap and not safely tucked away nicely in some place out in the burbs?”

 

"Well, I’m here because my late husband had it in mind to restore this once grand place to its former glory.”

 

“A dreamer, he was, hu?  Well, by the looks of it he had is work cut out for him.  To tell the truth, the rat hole I live in now looks a paradise compared to this."

 

"But to be honest, even with the rot and deterioration I can see the promise he saw in this place too."

 

"You can?"

 

"Damn straight.  But first ‘we’ gotta figure out what is causing all this rot."

 

"What's it like upstairs?" he then asked.

 

"I'll show you," she said, as she set off, climbing the stairs past one floor and upward to the next, answering his questions as he followed close knit behind.  That is until they reached the 7th, and top floor.

 

Opening the door, he saw the crumbling remains of the rotted gabled roof in piles on the floor, and above, the stream of moisture dripping down from around the perimeter of the gaping hole.

 

"Little lady, I think I found your problem!"

 

"Oh my, oh, yes.  Sorry, but this is my first time up here.  Can it be fixed?"

 

"Maybe, but not by the almighty.  So excluding that possibility, I'd say you’re lucky to know Black Moses."

 

"Black Moses?"

 

"Yeah, me. That's what my friends call me. Nat, Black Moses, James, because I know how to part the waters. And if anyone can fix you up, I'm the one."

 

"I'm afraid to ask how much doing such a thing would cost me? As things are, the kids and me are already near starving, and if I don't start luring in the renters soon, we will be."

 

"Then you are doubly lucky to know me.  I got me a crew, and by the looks of this place, the sooner I round them up the better.  And don't you worry none.  They got the knowhow, they got the tools, all we need to hear from you is that you’re all juiced up and ready to go.”

 

“Yes, of course, I mean it’s not like I have a choice!”

 

And on that he turned around and hustled it down the stairs and out the front door . . .

 

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Nat James, the Black Moses, spent the rest of the afternoon rounding up his crew, and feeling pretty chipper about the way things had gone down, he could hardly wait to return the next morning.

 

And he felt no less high in the saddle when he did return the following morning, only this time he didn’t even bother to knock, he just walked right in the front door and into the kitcken, where he first met the twins.

 

“Well, hello there,” he said, taking in the sight that was Bobby & Robbi, Mary’s twins, munching down on thier morning cereal. “What a sweet pair of lollipops the pair of you make.”

 

‘I’m Nat James, but you can call me, Black Moses cuz all my friends do, and I want so much to be your friend. So why don’t you come over here and I’ll give you both a piggy-back ride.”

 

The kids, bursting with excitement, jumped right up and into his out stretched arms whereupon he hoist them atop his shoulders, Bobbi on the left and Robbi on the right.

 

It was at that moment when, Mary, their mother, walked in.

 

“Morning, moms, "Look who I bumped into,’ he then added brightly.  “I come in to get me some coffee, and while I found me none, I sure as hell found me the sugar," he laughed, then beamed that never-ending grin of his.

 

Bobbi and Robbi were no less giddy, specially when Nat Moses James spun around on the sole of his shoes with his hands latched on tight to their naked buns to keep them from falling, and to introduce them to the five prong skewers they were going to come to know down to every wart, lump, bump or patch of abrasive skin on his hands and fingers.

 

"Momma,” he then said, while those prong-like fingers were already seeking out the crease that split their cheeks. “You know you should have warned me about these two.  A fella can end up feeling pretty darn doped by the suger rush that comes when sucking on one of these sweet lil' lollipops.”

 

“You ask me, I say screw them Columbian beans and bring on the sugar, Mama,” he said as his trigger finger was pressing down into the crease that split their cheeks, causing Bobbi and Robbi, both, to vent a breathless sigh.

 

“Twins, right, Mama?”

 

“Yes, born but an hour apart.”

 

“Dressed a like, looking a like, it’s like looking into a split image mirror,” he laughed, while his finger press in and down knuckles deep.

 

“Well you just sit down and relax, Mama, and have you some breakfast.  If it’s alright with you, I’ll take Bobbi & Robbi out to get them some shine, and maybe we be lucky and find us some doper looking to share a taste of the ganja he be sellng.”

 

Ganja  You mean . . .?”

 

“Yeah, that stuff.  Ain’t no big thing.   How do you think people make a living around here?”

 

“No, I don’t think that’s a good thing, not at all.”

 

“Oh yes mam, around here we got us only the best,” he said, effectively dodging the matter of her expressed concern and stolled out anyway with Bobbi perched high atop his left shoulder and Robbi on the right, his fingers finding the itchy spot deep down inside they wanted him to scratch.

 

As Mary sat and watched them leave with both Bobbi & Robbi riding on his shoulders, she saw to her shame, what it was that Nat was doing with his hands, his fingers, and his tongue, licking their thighs. It was nothing if not an outright assault on all that she knew to be right, yet her face was but a blank.

 

"Why,"you might ask? Why didn't she say something, do something, anything to stop the assault on her kids.  I mean, as things were, everything was so blatantly out in the open, that say nothing made her feel down right pimpish!

 

But what was it you'd have her do? With her whole 'make-or-brake-it' life in Nat's, Mister Fix-its’ hands, what choice had she?  Leastwise if she ever hoped to stay out of the bread line, and secure a future worthy of her fatherless kids.

 

Now, I know all this might sound a tidbit dire, and indeed it was.  But then again, what better place is there to come to know dire than on Dire Street?

 

"Hey boy, that’s some mighty fine shit,” Nat, Moses James said to the street kid who’d just sold them the dope. The kid, perhaps 14, about a  year or so older than the twins, was blowing smoke into the mouth of first Robbi, then Bobbi who had her ankles wrapped around his neck so he could blow smoke into that mouth too!

 

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Early the next morning Mary was sitting at the kitchen table nursing a cup of tea and listening to the kids do what kids do in their room when the trucks pulled up out front.

 

This was day one.  Tear Down Day, the day when Nat, the Black Moses and his chums were to begin the process of Tearing out the interior of the once grand old lady of Dire St., and Rebuild her to look every bit the beauty she once was.

 

And meant men; lots of men with skills and muscle and big ‘Tools’, not to mention trucks and dumpsters outside to carry away all the rubble.  And that brings us back to the moment where we find Mary in the kitchen nursing her morning tea as the trucks rolled up, and the big burly men who rode them, jumped off and walked into her home.

 

It all looked a bit more than she had envisioned it.  After Nat, the Moses, had explained to her what was about to happen, she somehow was left with the impression that the men he’d chosen to work were professionals.  Men who wore starched uniforms with clipboard in hand and with teeth gleaming.  Not crude, vulgar ingrates spitting out chew while squeezing & kneading their crouch as they walked pass.

 

“These are my Bros,” Nat James said while wrapping his arm around her shoulder.  See here, this is my roofer, Chico Washington, and standing right next to him is, Ozone Jackson, my plasterer.  Then last but not the lease of my rebuild crew is Kwame King, the man with the plan in his hands.  Take a bow, buddy,” he said, and to wit, Kwame grabbed his crotch and licked his lips while looking lasciviously at her.

 

But, before you be needing a rebuild you’ll first be needing the likes of Juju Jefferson, Tank Fracklin, and of course, Stretch, ‘Slam Dunk’ Jackson, my wrecking crew who are here to do what they do best. Gut this place!  Please step forward fella’s and give a tip of the hat to the lady.”

 

“Trust me, with this gang, the Great Wall of China would be reduced to a heap of rubble before you could count three.”

 

 “So you see, Moms, with me at your back, you ain’t got shit to worry about . . .”

 

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CHAP 4

Famous last words:

 

Later that day after ‘the crew’ finished their assessment and left for the day, Mary retreated to the kitchen for her cup of tea.

 

It was then after hearing a shouting match going on outside on the street below that she ventured a look only to see two men roughing it up like two dogs fighting over the same bitch in heat. It was nasty business to be sure, but that wasn’t whys Mary lost her grip on her cup of tea, sending it crashing down onto the floor.

 

No, what caused her to grow near faint was what she saw when she looked across street in front of Bosco's Peep show Arcade.  Or more precisely, ‘who it was she saw standing out in front of the arcade looking at a promotional advert of an upcoming flick starring ‘John, Long Dong Silver, and Daisy, Deep Throat Swallows.’

 

 It was none other than a starry-eyed Bobbi & Robbi and behind them stood Juju Jefferson with his hands full of bare ass.  And worse yet, in a minute more, he was taking them inside to watch a fuck flick in a dark black booth, where he lifted their matching skirted outfits up and over their heads, and pulled his pants down to his knees.

 

“You dropped your cup,” Nat James said to Mary, pointing out the obvious as he came up alongside.  “Need some help cleaning it up?”

 

“No, but tell me, isn’t that the man you hired?” She asked, pointing down upon the misfit, out of place, trio below.

 

“Yeah, Juju, he’s cool.  He’s on my wrecking crew, my man who was born with a sledgehammer in one hand and a jackhammer in the other, and a need to destroy burnt into his psyche.   He’s out playing because tomorrow he starts ripping out the innards out of this place, and I’m talking, “look out Jack, the beast has been released.”

 

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Chapter 3

Juju & Crew Do the Ripping & Shredding & Bring On the Havoc . . .

 

The following morning Mary Gray was shaken out of bed by the ear popping sounds of hammers smashing into walls, plaster crashing to the floor, and the thunderous cracking sound of splintering beams and boards sent sailing like shrapnel down the hall.

 

Opening her bedroom door, she took a moment to steel her resolve before attempting to walk the short distance to the kitchen.

 

Needless to say, it was a duck and cover commando-like operation all the way, her defensive posture giving way only after running head long into Nat James’s Belly.

 

“Nat!’ she screamed to heard over the ruckus, “This is a terror, nothing less, please, stop it, please, my god, that splinter of wood you see embedded in my bedroom door would have struck me between the eyes had I not ducked.”

 

“Sorry, can’t do. I told you, you’d fare better if you were to lie down on the tracks to stop a runaway train,” he said loudly & hurriedly as he, himself, just managed to duck out the way of a 2x4 that had broken free from who knows where, and was now flying toward him like a six foot long, 20 lb., missile that luckily missed him but hit the kitchen Bay Window squarely, blowing the whole 8’x8’ section of the wall out onto the street.

 

“Where are my kids, Where are my kids,” Mary Gray again started screaming hysterically, while looking right out on to Dire St., where the brightly lite porn shops flickered like fireflies in the night, and the whores who were giving a blow for 5 bucks a go were looking at her square in the eye.

 

Were are your kids?”  Nat the Moses James countered, “How the fuck do I know. If they ain’t been blown out onto the street along with the rest of your house, I’d say, start digging through the rubble.”

 

And then it happened,  starting at the top floor, the seventh floor, the floor where Juju Jefferson was tearing out the sodden, mildew rotting timbers and stripping away the plaster on the walls and ceiling, a job that need be done, though carefully and forever mindful not to allow the debris to pile up on the floor, else the flooring become unnecessarily stressed by the cumulative weight.

 

But mindful of the hazard Juju was not, and as a result, the timbers began to moan and creak, and sounding as it crying, and the cross timbers beneath the floor sounded as if dying.  And, in deed, that rotting, mildew ridden wood did give way, causing the flooring to first start to sag, and then collapse down upon the floor below it.

 

“Ka-boom!”  The whole house rattled and shook, and centering the explosion, a mushroom cloud of pulverize plaster loomed ominously in the air.

 

It was a disaster upon a disaster, but worse yet, the collapse of floors didn’t stop there.  In fact, the heavier the combine load the quicker each floor pancaked down until reaching the bottom floor where it crashed right through.  From the top to the bottom of the 7 floor building, all that was left was a long column of pulverize debris clouding the air.

 

From the view point of an outsider, it looked a 5 alarm monster of disaster.   From the view point of those inside, it looked the world’s end.      Especially to Mary Gray who was  looking frantically for her children standing as she was at ground zero, seeing, hearing, nothing but the voice of Nat, the Moses James,  calling  out from somewhere nearby.

 

“Look up, look up at the hole in the ceiling!” Nat’s voice cut though the fog.”

 

And so she did, and, indeed, the thickness of the debris in the air did thin out where she had been told her to look.  At least she could see well enough to spot Juju Jefferson straddling the one and only floor beam left standing waving his du-rag about, and yahooooooing it up like a cowboy riding a bronco.

 

While below, penduluming back and forth on a rope that Chico had been using prior to the collapse, her bare naked Bobbi was in the process of executing a most splendid Arabesque, showing plenty of charm and plenty of attitude. And because her legs were spread and raised high enough up for her toes to touch her nose, she was also showing an immodest degree of her still sparsely covered garden fresh young puss.  And all set off by the sight of her lolling tongue that spoke to her unbridled need for someone, anyone, to slide their fingers deep down inside her.

 

The same could said of her brother, Robbi, who like his sister before, could and did execute a most splendid Arabesque with the same lolling tongue that spoke of his need for someone, anyone, to slide their fingers deep down inside him, only not in the top side, but bottom side, something Juju Jefferson and the whole of the wrecking crew couldn’t get enough of, given that their indiscriminate tastes be what they be.

 

Well, think what you may, but rest assured Mary wasn’t the least bit put-out by what she saw.  To her, kids being as they be, and passions being what they are, it is just another part in the making of us.  – Full Stop, sermon complete!

 

But those were thoughts for another time. Right now, things were changing as was the cloud of debris.  Thickening here, thinning there, and in the process clouding over what vision she had of hers kids. But as things turn, it mattered not.  For it was exactly at that moment when she felt the floor beneath her feet begin to shift.  The whole of the building, began to lean by degrees to the right, the arc of decline growing steeper and steeper until she heard an eerily unnerving crunching sound.

 

 Looking up to assess her new angle of repose, she saw the white walled interior of the tenement next door through the hole her collapsing building had punched out on its way down.

 

And then, from of out the cloud of debris that engulfed her, she heard Nat, the Moses James frightening call . . .

 

“RUN FOR FOR IT!  THE PLACE IS ‘FINALLY’ COMING DOWN!” he shouted with a hint of elation.  And then, but a breath a way . . .

 

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Chapter 4

Like a reflection in a mirror, all that is new is but a reflection of the past

 

 

“Timber-r-r-r-r . . . !”  Nat let loose with a victorious, wilding cry, while Juju standing beside him, tossed his mighty demolition ax over his shoulder and proudly, if not smugly, touted, “ Damn good work, dontcha think, boss?”

 

“Damn straight, my brother, and all in just two days.”

 

“Yeah, and the bricks look to be in pretty fine condition, too.  They ought to bring in a pretty penny, more than enough to cover the cost of the rebuild.”

 

“Oh, hell yeah!  Nat’s Candy Land Strip Club will be styling.  I mean, a great whorehouse is what it is, but class is just that, class! ”

 

“What?” A thoroughly dumbfounded, Mary, just managed to eke out.  “The language, the talk, I don’t understand.”

 

“What’s to know? Your place is a pile of rubble, you’re now out on the street, and you’re absolutely penniless.”  Whereas I got me my crew, and my plans, and I’m a man on the go; I’m Nat, the black Moses James who just parted the waters over your dumb ass, you cud chewing stupid cow!’

 

“But, I’m not going to hold that against you.   So, if you play nice . . .”

 

“That’s right,” Juju cut in.  He’s going to give you your very own room.”

 

“Yeah, that’s right, you tell her, buddy,” said Nat, while slapping his buddy upon the back.  “And don’t forget to tell her that I plan on giving her kids, Bobbi and Robbi, a room of their own too.”

 

“On each side of her own room to be exact.  But not to worry, I still plan on making you my number one chicken in the coop.  Robbi will only be there for them southpaws.  Them who like theirs topsy-turvy, while Bobbi will be there for the righties; them who don’t so much like the reverse plumbing.  Leastwise, not as not as they love the topside; the eye to eye side; her tears to his brutishly wicked side; her 8-ball size titty to his  dog chomping mouth side!”

 

“Yeah, yeah, that’s like so Dope, my man,” Juju intervened on behalf of the totally distraught woman.  “Now, tell her the part that’s absolutely raw.  About the prepaid ticketed lines you’ve been been thinking about.  I mean, how righteous would that be.  No more line jumping and fisticuffs, and no more blue balls from missing their turn gifting mama or Bobbi or Robbi with a bowl of hand-made nut soup for not shedding the tears when asked to clean them up back there where the sun don’t shine.”

 

“Oh yes, working on a full belly only makes for good business.”

 

“Good for Mary, the whore, too,” Juju replied, throwing in his two bits worth.

 

Yeah, and that’s not to mention her two ravenous half-link harlot’s who just loves sucking on cock.” That’s like paradise to those hungry balls draining nymphs, needing the nutrients as they do.”

 

“Sure thing there, buddy,” give me five,” Nat the Moses James replied.  Then after slapping hands, he turned and looked the way of the weeping, broken, woman . . .”

 

“Huh!  Feeling sorry for yourself are you?  Well, forget it, Mary, this is Dire Street!  And here in gangster land it is that ruthless bitch, Mother Corruption, who always comes out the winner.”

 

“But you knew that, you were told that, just as Rose Winifred had, yet you still choose to bet the house on your chances of beating Mother Corruption at her own game.  Tish, Tish

 

“Well now, take my advice, learn from your kids.  Just lie back, spread you legs and politely ask, ‘please Sir, may this dumb mutt have another bone’ . . .”

 

 

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Das ende

 

by Hunsi

 

 

 

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