Sunday, December 5, 2010

Alternate ending to "Their Eyes Where Watching God"

   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.

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