Deadly Confederacies by Martin Malone

Author:Martin Malone
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: New Island Publishing
Published: 2014-07-17T04:00:00+00:00

Because murders were rare back then, a huge oul’ fuss was made and the cops did their thing – but the heat goes off a murder after a while. That’s what we learned – murder heat cools by degrees, and each degree of cooling means a step closer to getting away scot-free. But Jack, for a fella who liked to say he was smart, made a stupid mistake that almost had us licking prison bars.

The following summer, after he hadn’t shown his face for a day and a half and hadn’t answered to Jack calling him, we discussed breaking into his bedroom. The stink in his room came out and asked us to, more or less. He was stone cold in the middle of his bed. A Sunday. I remember the day because of the chicken Jack had roasting in the oven, and they only had chicken on Sundays.

Jack closed his father’s eyes, opened the window to free the stench from the old man’s work boots and stale fag ash and decaying flesh. Then he lifted the mattress, both sides in turn, and searched the bedroom for money, not too worried about making a mess, because the room already had a ransacked look. He found about 400 quid, a stash of porno books and a bank book that said the old man was down to his last 1,500 quid. Afterwards, maybe an hour later, he went next door and asked his neighbour to ring for a doctor, that his Dad was after dying. If Jack shed a tear over the old guy that was about the height of it – and the biting wind at the graveside might have been responsible for that extraction.

Weeks later, we started going out with the women we would eventually marry. Women who believed in love and having kids, being homemakers, who were very slow ever to think badly of us. A woman’s intuition isn’t bullshit – if you ask me, they only ever get into trouble when they ignore it.

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Eleven years later

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