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Summer Evening
Billie Louise Jones
Summer days are long in the South. Evening light stretches out pleasantly for a long time after supper. A man sat on his front steps reading the Times-Picayune. He was about forty, nicely dressed in casual clothes, well known in the neighborhood for years as a landlord who was a virtual Quarter historian, active in community affairs. There was a zipbag on the step beside him. A man, very presentably groomed, got off the bus after work and stopped by the man on the steps. It was two neighbors visiting. Only, behind the paper there was a quick exchange, money from one, something out of the zipbag from the other.
If you did not know what was really happening, you would not think a thing about it.
