Misdeeds by A.S. Coomer

Author:A.S. Coomer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Down & Out Books

I’ve killed her. Oh Jesus God.

He slapped at the lightswitch and sent the hall into darkness again.

David Stearns stood crouched in his sister’s hall, shaking, for some time. All at once his brain started firing.

I’ll burn the fucking house down. That’s what I’ll do. I’ll burn it to the ground and nobody will ever know. Besides me. I’ll leave something on the stove. The teakettle! And I’ll slide the paper over ’til it catches and stay until I’m sure it won’t put itself out and go back to mowing. Happily mowing, finishing the front yard for my sick sister.

Nobody can reproach me. I was just trying to help. Didn’t see the flames until it was too late. Much too late.

Ack. But this is what you get for trying to help. For trying to be the good brother. Christ! Jesus God!

Without lingering, David flipped the lights back on.

His mind blanked but he forced himself to look.

Beside Margaret’s left hand was a small pistol. David recognized it at once.

Mom’s Saturday night special.

David saw the mess against the curtains. His sister’s blood, bits of bone, brain matter. All of it.

He looked to the wall opposite the window.

Nothing.

No splatter.

It couldn’t have been the rock. It must’ve been the gun.

He looked at Margaret’s head. It was sunken in and bloody but not on the side of the window.

All the breath from his lungs rushed out and he turned the light out again.

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