Suspended Sentences
“is a narrative reconstruction of an actual incident. The main character was an acquaintance of ours, and we shared the suspense and fears of his arrest and incarceration. The case was decided in court just as is represented here. Occasionally real life does make serviceable fiction.
Deke Allen was arrested Friday afternoon on his way home from his uncle’s house in Yorktown Heights.
He’d had a call that morning from his father. Mostly just to ask how Deke was doing, how was business, how’s that ...girl what’s-her-name, the one you live with, pretty little thing. So forth. But during the call his father mentioned that Uncle Bill was having a problem with rats in his basement. Deke’s father said, “If you happen to be heading up that way you can drop by and pick up my shotgun. Take it on up to Bill’s and see if you can take care of those rats for him.”
Uncle Bill didn’t like to put down poison because he had a houseful of dogs. He adopted stray dogs; it was his avocation. The place — a four-acre farmstead near the Croton Reservoir — was fenced in to contain the cacophony of orphaned dogs.MoreLess
Deke Allen was arrested Friday afternoon on his way home from his uncle’s house in Yorktown Heights.
He’d had a call that morning from his father. Mostly just to ask how Deke was doing, how was business, how’s that ...girl what’s-her-name, the one you live with, pretty little thing. So forth. But during the call his father mentioned that Uncle Bill was having a problem with rats in his basement. Deke’s father said, “If you happen to be heading up that way you can drop by and pick up my shotgun. Take it on up to Bill’s and see if you can take care of those rats for him.”
Uncle Bill didn’t like to put down poison because he had a houseful of dogs. He adopted stray dogs; it was his avocation. The place — a four-acre farmstead near the Croton Reservoir — was fenced in to contain the cacophony of orphaned dogs.MoreLess
Read book Suspended Sentences for free
Write Review:
User Reviews: