By Joe R. Lansdale
Jack Catcher's mom and dad are dead--his mother died of a ailment and his dad of a damaged heart--and he desires to get out of Oklahoma, the place dirt storms have killed every little thing eco-friendly and hopeful. So whilst former classmate Jane Lewis and her little brother, Tony, appear in his backyard with plans to thieve a lifeless neighbor's vehicle and make a holiday for Texas, Jack does not desire a lot convincing to compliment them. yet a run-in with one of many era's so much infamous gangsters places a crimp in Jane's plan, and shortly the 3 young ones are driving the rails between hoboes, gangsters, and con males, racing to warn a carnival-wrestler-turned-bank-robber of the chance headed towards him swifter than a black snowstorm at the prairie horizon. This street journey experience is a colourful journey via Depression-era America.
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I don’t see no cause just to stay around and eat dirt and get old, if I even manage to get old. Way things are going, I’ll be out on some porch somewhere in a chair with the dust covering me up. ” “I suppose not,” I said. “So,” Jane said. “We left out of there thinking we could find someone who could drive the car, but then we got caught up in another storm before we got very far. Just walking out there in all that dirt is some real trouble. There’s still roads, but they’re pretty covered up too.
Daddy and I had gone fishing a bunch of times, and I thought about him while I fished, and without even knowing it was coming, I started to cry. I thought about Mama, and how she would fry the fish after we cleaned them. How after a meal like that, Daddy would churn up some ice cream and we’d sit out on the porch with it in big bowls and eat it and watch lightning bugs fly along. Mama would put her arm around me, and tell me stories, mostly things her parents had told her. Scotch-Irish stories from the old country about ghosts and leprechauns and such.
Tony turned and looked at Jane like this was a question he hadn’t thought of and felt ought to be answered. She said, “Well, it wasn’t like we had a choice. The house was nearly blown flat. ” I said. “She reads books,” Tony said, as if it was a thing he couldn’t really explain. “That’s true,” she said, “and someday I’m going to write for a real fine newspaper. The problem is I can’t type. I’m going to find a school somewhere that can teach me, and then I’m going to be a journalist. ” “Journalist.