Time Out

By Cynthia Giles Hunn

The story begins with three gang members sitting in the backyard of the oldest members grandmothers back yard. While drinking talking about the drive bye that they had done earlier, the grandmother looks out the window. As shes washing dishes, starts praying that God helps her grandson to be a man and stop gang banging. Lighting strikes after she finishes praying, when she looks out the window again they are gone, but the bottles of beer are still there.

When they wake up they are in a time and place they never could've imagened. Here begins their adventure or tragedy, you choose. They are now in 1855 Mississippi!!!!!! Trying to survive another day. This leads them to see how hard those people lived and survived.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jun 23, 2021
• ISBN: 9781664180246

Cynthia Giles Hunn

Cynthia Giles Hunn was born in St.Louis, Mo, raised in St.Charles, Mo. she was raised by Three strong black women, her mother,grandmother and aunt. She moved to Los Angeles, California in 1959, after her grandmother came to visit her son and fell in love with California. She and the family moved to Venice, California, staying with her Uncle and his family. She stayed with her grandmother until going to Santa Monica High School, then went live to with her mother and brother. She was married, has one son Troy C. Giles. She now lives in Los Angeles. She wrote" Time Out " originally in 1999, in her spare time is an Entrepreneur, making Black cloth dolls, doll houses, quilts, picture frames, pillows-etc,. She is the secretary for the United Methodist Women at Crenshaw United Methodist Church, in Los Angeles, works at the United Methodist Women food bank every third Saturday.

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Rev. date: 06/23/2021

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CONTENTS

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

CHAPTER 1

T HE DAY WAS bright and shinning not a cloud in the sky. Homeboys sitting around talking about last nights kill, drive by shooting. Each drinking a 40 oz of Wild Bull, talking trash. (Richard)aka Big Dog, (Willie) aka Water, and (Junior)aka Greedy all are 19 except Richard who is 23 the leader.

Richards grandmother May Johnson, looking out her kitchen window, shaking her head, wondering where she has gone wrong. She looking to the heavens says, God, please help me! Help Richard be a man, the one I know he can be. As she opens her eyes, she sees a flash of light. When she looks again: Richard and his friends are gone, where they where are the half empty bottles of Wild Bull nothing else. She wonders where they went so fast, she continues to wash her dishes.

When they come to, it’s mid day, green trees everywhere. No houses, apartments, cars or people. Stirring slowly, Water and Greedy look around for Big dog. Big dog is trying not to look scared, said, Where the fuck are we? looking for something familiar. Seeing nothing. He told them, lets go. They wanted to know where, they walked for miles, stopping only to relieve themselves from the Wild Bull. Greedy said, he was hungry-that’s how he got in aka Greedy-wishing for a hamburger, fries and a choclate shake from Big D’s. licked his lips.

Big dog and Water looked at him, telling him to shut the fuck up. They came upon a stream, stopping to drink. After drinking Big dog looked around, through a clearing saw a small shack, there was a old man making a fire.

Greedy saw the fire, took off running, toward the old man and the shack. When he reached him, he said, Old Man where’s the food? The old man looked at him, pointed to a pot, still steaming. He garbed a spoon that was laying and started eating. Big dog and Greedy right behind him, and the fight was on.

The old man wondered where they had come from and what where they wearing!

Big dog took the spoon from Water ate some, and gave the spoon the Greedy who ate. Then he gave the spoon to the old man. The old man looked in the pot, almost seeing the bottem shaking his head. He then went into the cabin coming out with more bowls and spoons. He filled up what was left of the food, looking at the young men, he said, Who you hiding from?

Big dog noticed that the old man had on raggedy shirt, pant, rope for a belt and no shoes, salt and pepper hair and beard, to him he looked very old.

The old man asked them, What the name of your plantation?

The young men looked at each other, Big dog said, plantation! The old man said, Yeah, what it name?

Big dog said, we not from no plantation, we from Los Angeles! The old man said, no place name Los Angeles around here.

They looked at each other, Big dog said, What your name old man? He said, Bin. Big dog introduced himself and the two others. The old man looked at them and said is that your real names? They looked at each other laughing, telling him the real names. The old man smiled at them.

Greedy asked the old man if he lived here. The old man said, yes he did. Greedy said, why you live out here? The old man said because it’s hard on a slave living on a plantation.

Water said, Plantation, where the plantation at?

Bin asked them if they where running from their master. Water said, Master, whats that? Bin said, someone who owns you! Water said, we don’t have no master. We from LA! Bin said, that around here? They all said at the same time, No!

Bin looked at them, finally said, What that you boys wearn, never saw no clothes like them before?

Greedy said, Clothes! What you wearn Bin, never saw no clothes like them you wearn, and laughed.

Big dog asked Bin where were they, Bin said, MIssissipi.

Big dog said, "Mississippi, Mississippi ain’t never been to Mississipi before, what year is it?

Bin said," Can’t read, against the law, but I got old paper in the shack, maybe it’ll help. He went and got the paper. Gaving it to Big dog who read June 11, 1853. Bin looked at them saying you can read? They all answered yes. Big dog passed the paper to the others, shock on all faces.

Bin said, What the paper say, from the look of it, it must be bad.

Greedy started to read: Big slave auction today men, women, strong young bucks and fine wenches from Plantation Royal. Mr. Hibbs owner, bankrupt need to sell everything. Come one, come all.

Greedy stopped reading looked at Bin. He looked back and said told you it’s hard being a man and a slave.

Big dog said, Plantation, what and where is it? Bin looked at him and said, I can take you one day but not today, its to late in the day.

After they chatted with Bin until it was getting dark. Bin invited them into his home, a broken down shack. They looked at each other, following him in. After he closed the door and lite a small piece of candle. They settled in for the night. The young men didn’t sleep very much that night, they kept hearing strange noises. Finally they fell into a fretfull sleep.

Bin was up early trying to find enough food to feed the young men. Water and Greedy were watching Bin when he got up and followed him out. Water asked Bin if they should wake up Big dog and the old man said naw