The Golden Ghouls: A paranormal mystery adventure (Monsters of Jellyfish Beach Book 1) by Ward Parker

Author:Ward Parker [Parker, Ward]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mad Mangrove Media, LLC
Published: 2023-06-28T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

Jailhouse Rocked

Jellyfish Beach doesn’t have its own jail. All the people the police department arrests are held at the Crab County Jail before and during their trials. The jail is in the county seat of Mullet City—named after the fish, not the haircut. But all the barbers and hairstylists in this aging agricultural city seemed to only cut hair short in the front, top, and sides, leaving it long in the back. This was true for women as well as men, based on the people we saw on the street.

I had offered to drive Alex and June to the jail to visit their sister. We were all worried about how she was holding up. Her sisters said the few collect calls May had made to them were brief and concerning.

“Why do they call this hairstyle a mullet?” Alex asked as we sat at a red light watching a man with a particularly egregious one walk by.

“I don’t know. It supposedly means ‘business up front, and party in the back.’ It was popular back in the eighties and nineties.”

“No one has their hair like this in Jellyfish Beach,” June said.

“I guess we’re too hip and cosmopolitan for that,” I said. Actually, it was because the average age of our residents was over seventy.

Entering the jail was an intimidating process, going through metal detectors and wand frisking. The other visitors had an air of desperation. We probably did, too. It’s not a happy experience to have a relative or friend incarcerated. Some say the inmates are people who failed at being part of society, but I could argue many are those who were failed by society.

The visitation room was like the ones you see in movies, with cubicles on either side of a thick plexiglass window and old-fashioned phone handsets to speak through. Alex and June sat in chairs near the glass while I stood behind them. I was here mainly for emotional support. Though, I secretly had a feeling of guilt that I had not done enough yet to help clear May.

Sitting in the cubicle to our right was a mother with a young boy. On the other side of the window from them was an older female inmate. To our left was a middle-aged man speaking with a woman who was around his age.

A male guard stood at the rear of the prisoners’ side of the room. A second guard, a woman, led prisoners into the room one by one to the appropriate cubicle to meet their waiting visitors. In this wing of the jail, all the prisoners were women.

May entered, looked haggard and numb. After she sat down behind the glass, I averted my eyes while the three sisters cried and spoke among themselves. It was awkward, believe me.

I wished I had my phone with me, but it was not allowed. Before we arrived, I got a text from Matt with the news from the medical examiner’s office that the delivery driver’s leg had been cleanly severed by a metal tool, such as a sword or ax.

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