The Family Name - Freewrite
The Family Name
He sat in a rickety chair by an open window. A desk in front of him littered with empty bourbon glasses and an ashtray filled with crumpled cigarette butts. The air was so rank and stale even the breeze floating in couldn't filter it. He bent, frantically typing on an old manual typewriter confiscated from the old man's office before he dropped dead making plans to escape the country with a stolen suitcase full of $100 bills.
That he was the son of a theif really didn't bother him. The fact that he was the son of a murderer, did.
He'd come home after dropping his girlfriend after a fun weekend at the local annual festival. He'd been still a bit drunk when he pulled in the drive. He found it odd that the lights were on at 4 am. That wasn't normal for his parents. Sure, on weekends they may stay up later, but 11:00 p.m. was the latest before Mom stifled a yawn and headed to bed.
The office light was on, and a fan purred lazily in the ceiling blowing hot air around with a sickening sweet odor. His father was face down in his chair. He calculated his death as Friday. Marlon called the police and looked in vain for his mother. He reported her missing the next day. The police came and took a report. The days stretched forth into months and still Mom didn't return.
When Marlon went down to the cabin in the woods the suitcase of money he found under the desk, along with the ticket to Sweden became more clear. He found Mom. At first he contemplated calling authorities. She was left face down in the claw tub in her carefully decorated bathroom. There were rope burns on her pale wrists. It looked like she put up a hell of a fight.
He buried her behind the cabin and put her favorite charm bracelet and shoes in the hole. He said a makeshift prayer before dropping the dirt in and carefully placed garden stones on the mound and replanted some daisies by the cabin over the corner.
This letter was the epilogue of his current life. Tomorrow he'd be gone. The tickets won't go to waste after all. It would be senseless to turn the money in and expose his dead father for the theif and murderer that he was. After all, he had his own legacy to think of.
He finished the letter and folded it. His suicide note would keep them looking. By then, he'd be long gone. Sometimes you just have to protect the family name, when it's all you have left.
photo taken with my Galaxy Note 8
This is my 5 minute freewrite.
The prompt is epilogue
I hope you'll join in with a growing group of lively freewriters!
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You are such a sweet woman - how do you come up with all the tales of murder and such :)
I wonder too... but I find her writing so calm even when it's as grey as the one we have just read :)
Thank you for the huge compliment! Hugs <3
The magic of freewriting and tons of murder mystery books lol. <3 thanks for the compliment! @freewritehouse
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Thank you for this @discordiant <3
Thank you :)
Wonderful! Your post was nominated and listed on our Freewrite Favorite curation post this week at the @freewritehouse
Thank you for participating & Keep up the great freewriting!
Thank you so much @freewritehouse!
A brilliant story and so very well written.
Thank you so much @deirdyweirdy.
Yes, sometimes you just have to protect the family name. Good Stuff! Here's Thursday's prompt: Day 259: 5 Minute Freewrite: Thursday - Prompt: sell-out.
Thank you, very belated. I've been off the grid all week due to my sister's wedding and unfortunate bout of poison ivy that's still raging.
Oh, wow. I've never had poison ivy but it looks terrible. So did the bout of poison ivy poisoning happen at the wedding?
It's actually poison oak and it was under my family room window creeping up the apartment I rent. I pulled them off 7/4 and the wedding was 7/9. By Friday I knew something was bad. I'm at the doctor's now hoping for some relief since the prednisone isn't stopping it. Thanks for stopping.
Beautiful. Just beautiful.
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Thank you, dear friend.
The ending makes a lot of sense.
Sounds more like a godfather kind of a novel.
Thank you for reading and commenting. I never read the Godfather, but I saw the movie! ;)
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