(Thanks to badfinger20 of PowerPop… An Eclectic Collection of Pop Culture for the opening sentence).
Nine-year-old Marty secretly buried a box next to his parent’s house. Why? I hear you ask. And what was in the box? Even though it’s secret, some of us are party to the information. But first, we must backtrack a little to provide some context.
Marty had lived an eventful nine years. He had been shuffled from one foster home to another. Eventually he was claimed and adopted by his biological parents who regretted giving him up nine years earlier. What became obvious very quickly was the reason they had given Marty up for adoption in the first place: they were incompetent parents.
Neither parent worked. Mom got drunk every night. Dad was hardly ever home; he was out doing whatever it is that grownups do. Marty was always hungry. In many ways he was the only sensible person in the household.
Anyway, he had no trouble getting rid of the bodies. It was the tell-tale kitchen carving knife he was most worried about.
Brilliant Bruce…
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Thanks you for inspiring a good couple of murders!
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My pleasure! They were deserving!
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Too true!
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So, what happens next to Marty? Maybe he starts raising possums for their fur, gets very rich and happy. Or maybe not.
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It was a problem when it came to skinning the possums for fur as he’d buried the carving knife.
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That is a massive comeback to form!
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Thanks Uma. The “comeback” seems to pop up unpredictably on its own!
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Oh, Bruce.
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The story is based on a former landlord’s son who was murdered with the kitchen carving knife.
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Oh.
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What HAD his foster parents taught him?
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Possibly one of the foster parents wasn’t quite nice !
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