The Dirt Eaters

By H.D. Timmons

Set in the 1960s of America's rural south, a young black woman is forced to reckon with her cultural eating disorder of eating dirt.

• Language: English
• Publisher: H.D. Timmons
• Release date: Jan 17, 2011
• ISBN: 9781458143105

H.D. Timmons

H.D. Timmons is the author of The Tale of Tom Zombie ebook series, the short suspense ebook and audiobook Savage, as well as other ebook fiction short stories. He has also had articles published in Adoption Today Magazine, RetailerNOW Magazine, and New Focus Daily Magazine. Mr. Timmons was born in Brooklyn, NY and is currently a Creative Director living in Kernersville, NC.

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The Dirt Eaters

Rosalyn Gentry’s mother had sent her on an errand with familiar instructions. Take this fifteen cents. Go up to Mrs. Johnson’s an’ fetch me some chalk, child.

On her way back home Rosalyn took the opportunity to break off a tiny piece of the chalk she’d fetched for her mother and popped it into her mouth. She’d sampled it before and even though it tasted like plain old dirt to her, she felt compelled to continue trying to understand her mother’s desire to eat it.

On warm evenings the neighborhood women gathered on one porch or another to talk about the goings on of the day. As