Chapter 11
Monkey Boy
“MOSES, WHY YOU keep bringin’ him ’round? I stay as far away as I can. Crazy don’t go away—may hide for a spell, but always comes back. He’s pure crazy.”
“No, he’s all right, Ezra, and he ain’t no boy no more—he’s a grown man. We help each other. I talk to him ’bout not killing people and he’s teachin’ me to read and write.”
“Not killing people. I told you, he’s—”
“Only jokin’, Ezra. He calmed down a lot. Here he is now.”
Moses spotted Vent running full speed with his shirt off from the window of his small house. The boy, a shade under five feet tall with extraordinary muscular development, had the longest arms Moses had ever seen. “Ezra, come to the window. Wait until he gets to the fence.”
Vent jumped headfirst over the fence, landing in a smooth somersault,
