#117 A Harlem Game- Henry Dumas
This one is a pretty straight up story for Dumas. There is none
of the spiritual or supernatural elements that make up a lot of his writing.
All of the craft is still there however.
Mack wants to go to the late show but needs some money. Jayjay warns him not to go up stairs to ask
for it since he already got 50 cents earlier. But he goes up and presses his
luck. Upstairs is the ongoing poker game his mother and father are involved in.
Sneaking past the trash and the blood stained stairs, he
enters the smoke filled room to see his mother is running the table.
Unfortunately, while he gets more money from his mother, he is schooled by his
father and somehow leaves the room in debt.
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