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Step Daddy Cade then rolled his lazy ass out of bed about an hour later settling down on the couch next to me and together we watched Jerry Springer. Jerry had on a group of midget Klansmen who blamed all the other races for them being little. It was quality television, if there ever was any. Later on in the day I had gone fishing with my step daddy down by the river. It was his idea, so I agreed to go having figured it was better than being grounded to the house. I had ended up catching three brook trout while my step daddy only caught two. And, I had even thought about bringing a couple back with us to feed to the strays, but I figured that my step daddy wasn’t going to have any of that. He would have just said to me, Are you …show more content…

Popsicle? I thought to myself, but that couldn’t be. She was dead. I saw her body. Her guts having been pulled from her abdomen and spread over the bedrock like jam on toast. I kept searching for her, though… at least, until my step daddy eventually said, “You lisinin’ to me?” at which time I snapped out of my daze and replied, “Yeah, yeah, you caught a lot of fish when you were little.” He then gruffly barked, “No, I said it would be nice if we took your mama out to sumplace nice for dinner sumtime this week. You know, get her out of the house for a little while, other than to just run errands.” “Yeah, that sounds nice,” I said, agreeing with him and now giving him my complete focus. “You got some place in mind?” “Don’t have no idea,” he said lighting up a smoke. “But there’s gotta be at least a couple of decent places in this crummy little town we could go.” After having not thought of any restaurants we could take Mama, we then walked the rest of the way home in silence. Which was fine by me because my interest was still on looking over at the Mt. Harrison side of the river determined that I would see the orange and white critter again. But all I saw were a bunch of rabbits running in-and-out of their burrows. Once back home, I’d gone straight to my room where I laid on my bed with Casper. I couldn’t help but have my mind weighed down by all the strange things that had happened as of late. I mean, there was the bizarre way my

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