Nigger fate. (short story)

From: African American Review | Date: December 22, 1994| Author: | Copyright information

Almost a year ago, just before my dad died, when his bladder cancer had already spread through his body, he insisted that we go to the Metropolitan Museum. He wouldn't explain why. He flew up from North Carolina without my mother. At the museum, we stood in front of an ancient Egyptian relief depicting a ceremony presided over by the Pharaoh Akhenaton and his queen, Nefertiti. "Well?" he said. He was rubbing his chest with both his hands like he used to when he was excited. By then, he had grown a scruffy beard to mask his gaunt cheeks and graying skin.

"Well, what?" I replied.

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