Did you ever wonder how Brandy got her job at the bar?
The same way you probably got your job: a policeman rescued her from a homeless life on the streets!
Read about it in this excerpt from Chapter 2:
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“Brandy, whatter you doing out here, anyway?” By now, the constable had gotten her a safe distance away from the drunk. He let her go and tipped his hat up to survey her form. “Ain’t nobody took you in yet?”
“Took me in? Who’s gonna do that? You and the banker done took away everything my mother and I had. You took our house, you took our belongings, you took our business.”
“Brandy, I never meant for you to land like this. I thought surely by now somebody would ...” He didn’t have a good ending to that sentence.
Brandy had no response, either. She stood, arms crossed, wishing the constable would go away so she could get back to her God-cursing search through the garbage for dinner. She had grown accustomed to the routine, and now he was threatening it.
The constable, in desperation, looked around the town square. His eyes fell on the one shop with lights still piercing the darkness. The shop was a bar—open late into the evening, serving whiskey and wine to the sailors on shore leave.
The constable grabbed Brandy by the arm and half-led, half-dragged her to the bar. She was too disgusted and too weak to resist.
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“Brandy You’re A Fine Girl”, a novel written by JoAllyn DeShon and inspired by the characters and setting of the 1972 hit song by “Looking Glass” will be published in early April, 2019. #BrandyBook
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