Sublime

“McAnnis, is it? Adam McAnnis?” As if committing the name to memory, to be written down later, inside a matchbook, or on the back of an OTB ticket, and slipped into the gloved palm of a man who will take care of it…

Annie Bell Green Eady, although she gave herself the nickname Mammie and went by it her whole life. She was Nearest’s granddaughter.