Back Two Trains Running
Chapters (8)
  1. Cover
  2. About the Author
  3. Praise for TWO TRAINS RUNNING
  4. Dedication
  5. The Setting
  6. ACT ONE
  7. ACT TWO
  8. What’s next onyour reading list?

WEST: I wasn’t gonna throw my money in the river, nigger.

HOLLOWAY: That’s why you don’t know. You don’t know what might have happened if you did that. If you had gone on back up there she might have told you.

WEST: I offered to give her the twenty dollars just for her time . . .  but she wouldn’t take it. Told me to throw it in the river. I’d rather see her with it than to see it at the bottom of the river. I just wasn’t gonna do that with my money.

HOLLOWAY: That’s why you don’t know.

WEST: If it take throwing my money in the river to find out then I ain’t never gonna know.

MEMPHIS: What you go up to see her about, Holloway? What happened when you threw your twenty dollars in?

HOLLOWAY: I went up there to see her cause I wanted to kill my grandfather. I went up there and got that feeling off me. I had to throw twenty dollars every week for a month. But I got it off me. He died from natural causes. Ask West . . .  he buried him. He died in his sleep. That’s why I knew it worked. Cause he died of natural death.

MEMPHIS: What you wanna kill your grandfather for?

HOLLOWAY: Now you getting in my business. Ask West if he ain’t died a natural death. That’s all you need to know.

MEMPHIS: I don’t care nothing about your business. You the one brought it up. I ain’t even know you had a grandfather.