The Stickmen by Edward Lee

Author:Edward Lee
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
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Publisher: Edward Lee

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Danny’s sneakers scuffed up dust as he wandered alone in the field behind the officers housing blocks. He kicked at rocks and old tin cans, kicked at dandelions and watched their ghostly puffs of fuzz explode and blow away.

The summer sun beamed down on him. A few hundred yards up ahead he could see the baseball field where the Boys Club leagues played, then the picnic grounds with its rows of tables and brick grills. Beyond that stretched the forest. There was no one in sight for as far as he could see.

It’s just me out here, he thought. Alone.

Danny didn’t generally like to be alone, but today being alone felt good. His mom and dad had been arguing again back at the house. About me, Danny knew. “Why can’t he be like other kids—normal kids?” his father had thundered from the family room. Danny had been down in the basement, working on some new drawings. He could easily hear them upstairs; their voices carried right down through the heat vent.

“Because you’re so goddamn repressive, he’ll never be normal!” his mother yelled back.

“Oh, that’s right! Blame it on me, pass the buck like you always do! He’s your kid too, you know! He should be out playing ball, roughing it up, getting a taste of life, but all he does instead is hide in the basement drawing all that junk because you encourage him to! Jesus Christ, if you didn’t coddle him so damn much, maybe he’d be like regular kids!”

“Yes, Tony, he’d be out there ‘roughing it up’ just like a good little soldier, huh?”

“For God’s sake! He’s got to learn about life sometime! It’s not all cookies and milk and mommy tucking him in at night! It’s no wonder he’s so weird, doing all those weirdo drawings and talking about goddamn spacemen and spaceships and all that shit! Jesus Christ, it’s no wonder we have to take him to a shrink!”

And on and on.

By now Danny had learned to block it out but sometimes it was real hard. He’d slipped out through the basement door because his head had started to hurt again and he had to get away from all the yelling. He felt bad about the whole thing, because it must be all his fault.

But if that were true…then it must be the Stickmen’s fault too. Why are they doing this to me? he wondered.

A sudden breeze gusted, knocking down the summer heat and mussing his hair. He wandered further, over the low rolling hills before the forest. A dragonfly buzzed by; several sparrows pecked at the grass just ahead of him, paying him no mind.

Yes, sometimes Danny liked to be alone. No one yelling. No one to bother him and make him feel bad. No people.

And no Stickmen.

He stopped at a patch of bare dirt. He knelt down. He picked up a thin stick and began to draw a picture in the bare spot.

Tall and thin. Only two fingers on each hand and two toes on each foot.

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