The Correspondence by J. D. Daniels

Author:J. D. Daniels
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2017-04-05T16:00:00+00:00

“There is an awful lot of drugs now in these small towns and big towns both,” my uncle Charles said. “You may not know the police shot that boy you all used to play with. Said he was cooking meth down there in his shed. They had him surrounded and he came out alone with his pistol. Found thirty-seven shell casings when it was all done with. What was his name?” But Charles couldn’t remember the dead man’s name.

“You’ll stay with us tonight,” my aunt Alice Carol said.

“I have a hotel room near the airport.”

“Honey, everything in this town is near the airport.”

“I guess I made a foolish decision.”

“You’ve always been foolish.”

My aunt was teasing me. She didn’t think I was so bad. One Thanksgiving—we were listening to the old boys jaw for hours about hiding up a tree with my grandfather’s shotgun in order to shoot a neighbor’s brown dog that had killed two of their chickens, and after both barrels were empty there was nothing left but the dog’s collar and its tail, which they’d helped the neighbor bury—she turned to me and said, “If you want to be a writer, why don’t you go get a pen and paper and write down all these lies?”

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