Death Scenes by Sean Tejaratchi

Author:Sean Tejaratchi
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781936239542
Publisher: Feral House

Suicide seems to draw out Huddleston’s jocular wit. A full page of people hanging in closets, garages and barns is wryly labeled “A Little Throat Trouble.” Contempt is a common reaction to those who destroy themselves. Suicide is the rift in the species, the leaking crack in our own fiber, and it scares us more than murder. Yet in this whole ferocious chronicle, Jack Huddleston allows himself only two soft moments, only two expressions of genuine sympathy. One of those is for the old man mentioned above, whose wife was murdered. The other is for a suicide. A young boy is sprawled against a work bench in some rough shed with the fatal revolver beside him. His handsome face bears some resemblance to the youthful portrait of Huddleston himself in his 1921 patrolman’s uniform. The cop’s block printing remarks,

SUICIDE 15 YRS OLD

CAUSED BY

A BROKEN HOME, AND

A BROKEN HEART

If we were certain before that Huddleston was cold to the core, we must reconsider when he repeats this crucial, hackneyed phrase, “a broken heart.” After all he’s seen and probably done, Jack H. believes men can die of a broken heart. And he, who does not like to be touched, is touched by that.

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