Emergency Exit - Excerpt

They are headed back to Duck Pond. At a corner near where the VW is parked Julie waits for Al to assist a blind Black man across the street. Half way across the blind man says to Al, I sure do thank you son I sure do you know I tried to get one of my own peoples to help me a little while ago but they ain't no good keep right on walking like nobody's business.

The hot sunlight is pouring down on them as they speed back. Julie at the wheel. Eighty in a fifty-five mile zone. Julie's talking about Sara: You see, as long as I'm unhappy and frustrated and in need of her advice she advises me and our relationship then and only then works fine everything is peaches and cream but just let things start going well for me like now and she gets very bitchy I don't know I think it's jealousy what'd you think of her, Al I mean really think of her be honest with me.