A Short Story

Contrarily to many children, Betty Anne Watters and her brother Kenneth Waters did not have an insouciant and happy childhood. They had a negligent mother and went from one foster house to another. They learned to lean on each other and developed a strong connection. Kenny grew up to be a troublemaker well known by the police. In 1982, he is arrested and convicted of murder. Kenny troubled past and his violence when he is drunk aggravated his case in front of the judges. Everybody knew him for being aggressive and impulsive. Despite the witnesses’ testimony and a blood proof, Kenny swore his innocence. Kenny’s conviction started Betty Anne’s fight to save him. Her strong belief in her older brother innocence pushed this work class mother

“Well, here it is,” says the moving truck man “1101 Cherry Street.” “Thank you,” says 27 year old Beverly who just graduated from the University of Ottawa. “No problem,” the moving truck man replies “we’ll help you unload all of your stuff, no extra charge.” “Thank you very much,” Beverly thankfully replies. They got out of the industrial smelling white and red moving truck, and proceeded to unload Beverly’s items,

Turning off the TV, Andrew grabbed his keys and rushed to the garage, angry for not being more cautious. Driving down the street as fast as he could to get to the cleaners, he said, “I wonder if Margaret has her phone. I will call it,” he said, pushing the buttons, he waited, and said, “Oh, no; it went directly to voice mail. She must have turned it off, but why would she do that?”

     By the middle of August, he could barely work. He blamed it on stress from traveling for work. He thought a new job might help, so Tracie typed his resignation because he could not remember how to use a computer. When he was looking for a new job, they found out that he could not fill out an application by himself. By the end of the month, they sold their mobile home that they lived in while finishing college and were going to move into the house they have just built, but Doug had no job. Tracie had not found a teaching contract yet. She decided to take him to the doctor when some friends came to help them move, and Doug did not know who they were. Doug’s resignation lost their insurance, so the kind house builder gave back all the money they put down. The

On this date worker spoke with Mrs. Julie Johnson after meeting Mrs. Marilyn Beaird. Ms. Johnson stated she wanted her mother taken care of and did not care what happened to her father. According to Mrs. Johnson, her father has always been a mean person and beat her and her mother. Mrs. Johnson is afraid Mr. Beaird will flip out one day and kill everyone in the home himself included. Due to this Mrs. Johnson had Mr. Beaird committed a few days ago. She is now afraid that if Mr. Beaird returns home he will "finish the job." According to Mrs. Johnson, her father has many connections due to his mining work and his wealth.

Kate bursts into tears. She tells Flannery that she was going to give her mother her Christmas present on the guitar as she wipes the tear away from her eyes. Flannery just stands, dumbfounded. Finally she shrugs, telling Kate that Ellis can just use the guitar she will be getting from her father. Kate thanks Flannery and asks her to join her while she strings popcorn. To her surprise Flannery accepts and the two walk to the kitchen to where the popcorn and strip was set up. Just as Kate sits down she hears the doorbell. It's the UPS man. Kate opens the door to see a uniformed man with two big boxes. One from Uncle Simon and Aunt Kim and another from the Guitar Center. Quikly the guitar box is snatched from Kates and hands by her mother and taken away. Kate gives an excited thank you to the UPS man, just waiting for him to stop in front of Flannery’s house. The truck never stops. Kate walks back to the kitchen but decides not to mention anything about the UPS truck. She is surprised when she sees that Flannery has already strung to feet of popcorn.

Katy meets with Gilbert down at the courthouse and sign documents with him and they hand them in to get stamped with photographers and their parents nearby. Their document is stamped with a void and a different document is put in an envelope and passed to Gilbert. He puts it in his pocket and tries to kiss Katy, but she quickly stepped away from him in fear.

tonight I solemnly promise that. ” He places his business card and five one hundred dollar bills in her hand and with sincerity suggested she and her friend spend the night at the Hilton, over in Greentown. Unable to speak Estelle Louise just stands there and clutches the money and card tight in her hand. Sheriff Doall asks her if she needs anything, she nods, no. He reassures her not to worry and he and Mr. Dents walk

Diamond was so excited about her new furniture purchase that she could not sleep. She stayed awake all night trying to help her Aunties clean. She told her Auntie Mahogany about the 24-hour grocery store for food. Realizing that no one ate, Mahogany agreed to go grocery shopping and she wanted to locate a place to eat. Ebony agreed the Cascade/Camp Creek area had many nice places to eat that were conveniently located to the house for a quick meal. The following day, Ebony remained at the house to await the delivery of the furniture. Diamond begged to stay home, but she received instructions to go to school and be surprised when she came home. The company delivered the furniture as scheduled. The girls wanted to know what to do with the other items and Ebony requested that they place them in

Anne brought some money that Arthur had in California as well as Arthur’s checkbook. She putted the money in the bank and it had Anne’s and Arthur’s names on it. She did this because she need to pay doctors bill, medical bills, or anything that was relating to her brother. Since her daughter was helping her, Linda told Anne to put her name on the checkbook, too because she will be taking her uncle, Arthur to the doctors and she needs to pay the bills. Anne trust Linda because she was her own daughter. As a result, Anne gave her a debit card instead of the checkbook because she did not want to bother her daughter after she offered to take care of her uncle’s bills. After a few days, Anne realized that Linda was using the debit card everyplace she went with her boyfriend and they had spent $71, 000 of her brother’s money.

Mrs. Johnson puts on her most comfortable heels and looks in the mirror at her perfectly matched clothes. As Mrs. Johnson is leaving her home, she realizes she won’t have enough money to get through the day. She heads to the bank to get money for everything she needs to do on this fine day. Mrs. Johnson saunters across the street to the candy store to buy Charleston Chews.

CHAPTER 3 Driving down Mountaineer Boulevard, Louise was nervous and upset thinking about going to court. Being unsure which would upset her more, listening to her husband’s yelling about her drinking or Judge Lucas’s lectures. Pulling into the parking lot, she glanced at Mike sitting in his car as she parked. Rolling his eyes, he watched as she got out of the car, and walked towards him. Opening the door, she noticed the expression on his face as he backed out of the parking space without saying a word. He never smiled or acknowledged her while driving toward the courthouse. At last, tears rolled down her cheeks, “Mike, I can’t handle this. Please, say something. I can’t take the thought of going to jail and even worse, you won’t talk to me.

Jerry walked out the bathroom tugging at his zipper. His eyes were red and swollen. His allergies were eating him up and for a fleeting moment Lacey mind flashed back to the October morning in 2000 when Jerry showed up at her house homeless and jobless. She had convinced her father to give Jerry a job a moment of weakness that Mr. Cash would never let her forget.

“Good Idea, said Tom, “We better get going.” We started walking torward the small boat when all of sudden we heard Ben yelling our names and we looked to see him running towards us. He said “ The others got caught while we tried robbing judge Thatcher.” I wasmfurrious at them for trying to tob the