Words are spelt incorrectly on purpose! If you have not read "Their Eyes Where Watching God" the dialogue is very much like this. I tried to copy it as best I could.
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I woke up to uh empty room. I always thoughta wak'n up in Tea Cake's bed, nothin like what's happening now. The twelve o'clock whistle is when I happened upon my cloth purse being empty. I exercised the entire house, keeping me busy, keeping my mind off Tea Cake and where he might be sauntering at.Even bustling around like a horse grinding sugar cane I couldn't do it foreva. All day and night I worried time like a bone. The sun came just as it left and soon enough a week passed like a dog with it's tail between its legs.I done figured I had had enough by then and left, walked right outta that rickety door head God knows where.
Right about the time that little town was a fading behind me I heard a call.Mr's Tyler telling me how I done made the same mistakes she did. The sound of a guitar broke my mind thought and I whipped around, my hair making the same sweep.Tea Cake came strolling along the dirt road, all sweaty, looking like a man comin outta a coal mine or something. "Good lawd Janie, where you been?" "Where I been? Tea Cake. Where you been? Leavin me alone for a whole week, taken my money!" Tea Cake's long stride finally reached me and he began stroking my hair. "You doubted me about the money Janie, I don't blame you cuz it's gone. I reckon I want the rest of it too." His gaze changed, became sinister. I thought he would be different. His grip tightened around my hair and his guitar dropped in the dirt, humming like the birds around the pear tree of my childhood.
I woke up to Ed Dockery shakin me up some. "Sorry Ma'am. I just came across yeah and uh . . . Tea Cake is gone quick." I layed back down just as quick as he probably left. Then I started thinking about how to get back to that pear tree, my last thought.
Toni, I LOVE this! So great and so imaginative!
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