Blood Ties
“A developer was putting up some condos in Marion, and Dad got a job doing electrical work. He rented a house about a half-hour walk from the Mississippi River.
It was the middle of summer and the temperature outside would be close to eighty degrees by daybreak. The countryside was flat and uninteresting. With school out, there was nothing to do. Dad seemed to come home only to sleep. Sometimes he would be gone the whole weekend.
Mound City was just a village full of bedrooms. There was no libra...ry and hardly any businesses. On foot, which was the only way Stephen was going to get anywhere, West Memphis was a good hour and a half away. For about two weeks he walked it nearly every day, looking for odd jobs. It was something to do. But the local kids, turned loose from school, were also looking and didn’t relish the competition. After he got beat up a second time, Stephen decided to stay home.
And at home he was left with plenty of time to think.
He kept coming back to the fact of his mother’s suitcase, trying to find some way to exonerate his father.MoreLess
It was the middle of summer and the temperature outside would be close to eighty degrees by daybreak. The countryside was flat and uninteresting. With school out, there was nothing to do. Dad seemed to come home only to sleep. Sometimes he would be gone the whole weekend.
Mound City was just a village full of bedrooms. There was no libra...ry and hardly any businesses. On foot, which was the only way Stephen was going to get anywhere, West Memphis was a good hour and a half away. For about two weeks he walked it nearly every day, looking for odd jobs. It was something to do. But the local kids, turned loose from school, were also looking and didn’t relish the competition. After he got beat up a second time, Stephen decided to stay home.
And at home he was left with plenty of time to think.
He kept coming back to the fact of his mother’s suitcase, trying to find some way to exonerate his father.MoreLess
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