They Call Me Crazy by Kelly Stone Gamble

Author:Kelly Stone Gamble
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Red Adept Publishing, LLC
Published: 2014-11-12T00:00:00+00:00

Then, there’s the prisoner herself. Cass doesn’t say much, which she isn’t supposed to unless she’s talking to her attorney, but when she does, it’s downright mean. Sure, it used to get under my ass—excuse the pun—when she’d make fun of my war injury, but my medal is as purple as anyone else’s, and I feel kind of proud that I took that round in a spot that didn’t cause any trouble. Well, not much trouble. It missed my spine by that much.

Grace puts down the papers, takes off her glasses, and rubs that spot between her eyes. She leans back in her chair and lets out a small sound. Her voice is low and shaky as she turns to me and says, “Poor little thing.”

Poor little thing? She killed her husband, buried him in the yard, then changed her mind and dragged him down a hill to the river. She was going to make him fish food before Daze stopped her. The one to feel sorry for is lying up at the coroner’s office, not getting three squares and a cot at the local jail. “Poor little thing.” That’s the professional collaboration I get.

“Damn it, Grace. Just give me the straight dope, now. She killed a man. She’s a murderer.”

She sticks out her bottom lip, and it’s hard to be mad at her. I’m tired, and I need to sleep, but I also need to know what I’m dealing with. I sit down at the table and wait for her to talk. She stares behind me as if she’s focusing on one of my dolls—Penny Brite, 1965, still in her box and decked out in her candy-apple dress. Yeah, I know where each one of them sits.

Grace turns her gaze back to me, her forehead bunched. I’m sure she’s trying to figure out a way to explain all that medical mumbo jumbo to a bonehead like me. She moves her chair closer to mine. “According to this, Dr. Kenney has been seeing her since she was a kid. He started treating her about six years ago for hysteria. Jesus, how old is this guy? Anyway, he gave her some drugs. Things didn’t get better, so he called it something else, and gave her more drugs. This has gone on for the past six years.”

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