Judgment Day & Other White Lies by Mike Hilbig

Author:Mike Hilbig [Hilbig, Mike]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Madville Publishing
Published: 2021-12-10T00:00:00+00:00

Big Daddy opened the busted screen door and came inside the tiny house that only seemed to get smaller each time he crossed the threshold. He wiped his brow with a white towel and fluffed his still damp tank top twice. Found his wife Cassandra sitting on the couch watching the television. He asked, Where are the girls?

My mom’s.

He looked at the silence coming from the window unit, wished he could turn it on, but they were probably late on the bills again. He handed her a hundred dollars. She reached up without saying a word, grabbed the money and stuck it into her bra, which was visible through her own loose fitting tank top. He said, I know it’s not a lot, but—

Shhh, I’m trying to watch this.

He sat down next to her on the couch, could feel a spring poking through the back, thought about all the new things they wanted and couldn’t afford, most of all a college education for their two girls, they still had time to save even if the hope of having anything to save was practically nil, but he didn’t want them to have to live like this when they got older, and he hoped she would approve of the plan he was about to suggest.

Cassandra’s eyes had yet to shift away from the screen. A wild looking thing, not quite in the form of a man, crawled around on all fours while growling, his face covered in mud, hair matted, was locked in some kind of an observational room with gray walls. Big Daddy heard the narrator ask, But was John Doe a wolf or a man? And did the not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity defense apply to a wolf-man? More after this.

What the fuck you watching? He asked.

National Geographic Channel. She paused, refusing to speak even through the commercials.

Okay? He invited her to keep going.

She blew out a sigh. You see, It’s fucked up baby. Like this happened in America, right? These three guys go hiking up in Appalachia, they’re met by this naked man on the trail who rips one of their throats out with his own teeth, the victim bleeds out quick, dead right there, it’s horrific. Then, he runs back up the trail and into the forest. The other two find the police, track the naked guy’s footprints and find he’s living with a pack of wild dogs, doesn’t seem to be cultured, like these animals might have really raised him, living in that forest in Kentucky completely unnoticed that whole time. The police wrestled him to the ground and took him in, shot all the dogs in the process. Poor guy was probably just scared of intruders. It’s horrible what happened, but like he also can’t communicate or anything, couldn’t have known right from wrong, yet there’s still some dip shit fucking Republican prosecutor who’s trying to charge him with Murder One. Give him the death penalty. Turns out the kid he killed was some lily white Harvard Law student on a trip to find himself or some bullshit.

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