Street Games - Rosellen Brown

[Luke]

Street Games, Rosellen Brown, 1991, United States, SHORT STORIES

"...From "245, Migdalia Colon's third floor rear," an unnamed wife thanks her recently dead, drug-addicted husband for dying before he "had to hock your children's eyes and little toes," and celebrates the right to call herself "I" instead of "we": "I. I. I. I...I want to put it on the mailbox. Use it for my signature. Frame it and hang it on the wall all gold...Show it around like a fat new baby. It's the best baby we never had, the one I made myself, after the children had gone to bed, just before you died." In "259, Upper Duplex," a young, liberal white bureaucrat laments: "I am too bored to move."..."

(J.L., p. 261)