If the Fire Comes: A Story of Segregation during the Great Depression

If the Fire Comes: A Story of Segregation during the Great Depression — page 5
didn’t shake steady and sure He never got black on a customer’s socks Joseph could tell the difference between a movie star and an athlete a businessman and a crook or a banker and a lawyer You leaving already Maya asked making Joseph jump I want to get an early start Joseph said walking across the shop to the side of Maya’s bed She slept out in the open Joseph slept on the floor next to her The shop only had one room in the back where Uncle Tanner disappeared to more and more often Maya was two years older than Joseph a ripe old age of thirteen but she still liked to play their spy game And even though she didn’t get around the way she used to she could talk all day fix a clock without thinking and pinch as hard as a crab Joseph was about to sit down next to her when he heard cooing coming from Maya’s feet Not again He pulled the thin blanket up from the bottom and found Simon Maya’s favorite bird He was nestled between Maya’s crooked legs thin as pencils He could see a