ASIN: B077FRDM98
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 284
"As he stood above the Duncans’ lifeless bodies, the sixteen-year-old boy began to weep. He considered the heartache and suffering he had long endured at the hands of Betty and Floyd, but felt little relief that their cruelty was at an end. While Gary had few memories of life with his real parents, most were of a peaceful place, a place to which he could retreat in his mind when he could endure no more abuse. Now, alone and afraid, he found he could not locate the place where he often took comfort. When the cold woke him throughout the night, he cried like a small child.The earth and air were already warm when the morning sun rose in the east, the morning after Gary took the lives of his tormenters. Crawling out from under the bushes where he had hidden, he looked toward the bright sunlight, but could see only darkness. Summoning an unaccustomed strength of purpose, he resolved never to ...
