ghost dance /draft 1

ghost dance/draft 1

fiction
edward w Pritchard

The waitresses at Fatty Dom's bar and grille fight among themselves but the owner's wife keeps a tight lid on their quarrels; the customers mustn't be drug into such matters. Most of the fighting among the waitresses staff at Fatty Dom's are over tips. It goes back and forth, should the tips go into a community pot that everyone shares equally, or should each waitress keep their own tips.

Dru the waitress with the jet black hair and arresting dark eyes sometimes doesn't stand up for herself with the other girls among the waitress staff at the Bar and does better with a community pot division of the tips. Dru is part Native American and lives down in the project and can use the tip money.

One night one of the associate professors from the community college was hitting on the waitress staff at Fatty Dom's trying to pick up just about anybody. To accommodate his efforts the drunk assistant professor was tipping extravagantly. Mostly the professor would hit on the girls serving drinks at the bar with the plunging neck lines but eventually he got around to the pretty girl with the arresting eyes. Dru was used to men like this and went about her job as usual.

The professor although a little drunk was telling Dru  about the Indian ghost dance.

Later that week Dru did some research on the Ghost dance at the local library for she had been fascinated by the subject. It was the first time since she was in high school that Dru had given much thought to her Native American heritage.

Dru eventually began to perform a solemn dance, in the style of the old Native American Ghost dance. Dru quit the waitress work at Fatty Dom's bar and began to do demonstrations of the Indian Ghost dance at Schools, churches, and American legion halls. In time Dru decided to specialize in funerals. The Ghost dance she performed set an appropriate solemn mood for a funeral and her services were in much demand.

The Ghost dance was originally outlawed in the State where Dru performs. To date however no law enforcement representatives have said anything to Dru about the ghost dance being illegal to perform; additionally to date the Buffalo have not returned.