Teaser

This is the beginning of a regional short story. This is actually a school assignment, but I thought I'd put it up here for fun.

Allison was walking down the pavement towards the corner of Old Kings Road and St Augustine. A slight breeze offered little comfort to the searing, 99-degree heat. To her right were quite a few sketchy characters, sure signs of trouble. They waddled around with pants to their knees and cornrows to their shoulders. She couldn’t understand the drawling language they spoke. It seemed to her a depraved dialect of English that she had often heard, but never taken the time to learn. One playfully shoved the other, causing a rousing effect for the otherwise sluggish group. They joked and shoved, shoved and joked for no purpose than to bring some form of amusement into their boring lives. These types of people could possibly be deadly if provoked, but she knew just as well that if they were left alone, they wouldn’t bite.