Sudetenland Tales by Edward Drobinski - HTML preview

Sudetenland Tales

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Harry Horowitz A/K/A Gyp the Blood

Precocious twelve year old DeMarcus Lawrence was born into a life of poverty, abandonment, and misfortune. After he was quickly abandoned by his black father, and later abandoned by his White mother, the mulatto was raised in a foster care house operated by two fat black gay guys, one a registered sex offender with a conviction for child abuse, in Haller Lake, Sudetenland; a small town some 70 miles from much larger Albuquerque, also part of Sudetenland. All the children residing along with DeMarcus also received very little food and a lot of garbage. Social Service case workers were reticent to remove the children, recognizing the difficulty in getting black children adopted as well as difficulty in proving the cases as adoptees don’t want to testify against their foster parents, for their prize is being returned to the shelter.

Eventually, the kids drew lots, with the loser, being expected to ask the masters for more food. DeMarcus lost, and so he had to approach the masters of the house, bowl and spoon in hand, saying; “Please, sirs, mx’s ....... or whatevers; my brothers and sisters, they-them ...... or whatevers, we need some more.”

A great uproar ensued at this perceived act of rebellion and DeMarcus is removed from the foster house, sent back to the