"Darkness or Light," by Bill Baber
Subject And Verb Agreement Press is proud to welcome esteemed author Bill Baber into our fold! Read his gritty crime tale: “Darkness or Light” below:
There’s no way to say for sure that I would have killed Bobby Ray Lomax if I wasn’t drunk; maybe alcohol provided me with the courage I needed to shoot him. As far as a motive? I’ll get to that in a little while. But I did it and I have no regrets, so there it is.
When I saw Lucinda in the hospital, she was still alive, barely clinging to the last thread of life, about to let go and fall into the final abyss. She looked nothing like the beautiful girl she had once been. Her face was destroyed almost beyond recognition. I leaned over the bed and softly kissed the side of her head.
“I’ll take care of this,” I told her. “Ain’t no way he’ll get away with it. And Baby, I’m so sorry I didn’t fix it sooner.”
There were tears running down my cheeks as I put my hand on top of hers. Just a brief moment later she was gone. It wasn’t long before I was on a stool at McAdoo’s Tavern pounding double shots of Early Times.
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