The Sentence That Killed Them All

because of a

by one, after reading a note lef

. Then, my dad. A

e only

at sentence, and it has be

he man who cause

years ago, on the last

osed to be

the sky was clear, a

found

from the roo

, his body twisted in a

isturbing part

d a s

smile, it was sere

was fina

the first cra

beginning

tarted s

hrough the quiet morning air

ad never seen cry, stood frozen.

rived, then t

lt alien against our fam

tired eyes and a rumpled su

he having trouble at school?

hook their heads,

was p

traight-A student. He was the

reason for hi

the officers

e of paper tucked into the b

nded it to Det

etnam vet who rarely showed emotion, snat

dson," he said,

lded th

his face a

t slack. The color drained from h

d clear, filled with a hor

ed my brot

ayd

ound of pu

d somethin

, walked past all of us, and

the old

bled, a low, c

of it at first. We were

smell that

kening smell o

eact. He ran to the garag

of gray smok

' s seat of his old Ford, his hea

the passenger

s were

there was a faint

ike Ja