Dark Star: Confessions of a Rock Idol by Creston Mapes

Author:Creston Mapes [Mapes, Creston]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, General, Suspense, thriller, Mystery, Christian Fiction, Frank Peretti, Ted Dekker
ISBN: 9780307563354
Google: g90DngEACAAJ
Publisher: Doubleday Religious Publishing Group
Published: 2011-08-03T04:00:00+00:00

Prison guard Donald Chambers was excited tonight. He was at the trial again today and thought Brian was really on to something—pursuing Twila Yonder, Zane Bender, and the whole hypnotism lead.

I wish I could tell you I was equally enthused.

Chambers said his wife of thirty-one years, Della, was about to have a coronary because he’d been away from home so much. Lately, he was working the night shift here at the detention center, sleeping a few hours at home in the morning, then coming to my trial for a good portion of the day, before going back to work at the prison. Chambers was so enthralled by the trial that he said Della was beginning to watch it on TV and might even join him in the courtroom one of these days.

Brian left the prison about an hour ago to do his homework, and we were in the last free time of the day before lights out. I was in my friend Scotty’s cell upstairs from mine, playing a game of poker with him and three other inmates. It was boring, but it beat TV.

They played for cigarettes in here. So although I didn’t smoke anymore, I still tried to win as many smokes as I could. You never knew when you might need a favor or two.

Most of the inmates had been keeping up with the trial, especially because it’s here in Miami-Dade County and one of their very own “homeboys”—yours truly—was at center stage.

My two aces just got beat by three jacks that were proudly presented by a guy named Radar (I guess because he strongly resembled the little guy from M*A*S*H). There went seven more Marlboros…

“Looooo-ser! Oh, Looooo-ser!”

The sound of Zaney’s high, cracking voice came somewhere from behind and instantly produced a vacant feeling in the pit of my stomach.

“You’ll never be anything but a loser, Lester,” he said, as I turned to watch him duck into the cell.

I kept my cool, brought my leaning chair to the ground, and didn’t say a word.

“I told you not to call me to the stand.” He moved in to hover behind me.

The card game stopped, but I continued looking straight ahead. “Deal,” I said to Scotty.

“What does a courtroom ‘oath’ mean to me, Lester?” He tugged the hair on the back of my head. “Huh? An oath to who?” He pulled again. “To God?”

I flashed back to my father taunting me in similar fashion, in front of my friends.

“Don’t pull my hair again,” I said through clenched teeth, still looking at the card players frozen around me.

“Ooooh, the rock star defends himself.”

“Deal the cards,” I said again.

“Remember the guy who hung himself a couple weeks ago?” He came around to cast a shadow over me. “That’s gonna be you, Lester.”

My eyes went up his orange jumpsuit and settled on his fat face. “You can’t kill me, Zaney. I’ve got too much to live for, too much preachin’ to do. I told you once, whatever your involvement was with Endora, it’s backfiring.

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