Nutty
10 years old
Wonder what someone did to him?
Or just born mean....bad mean....it happens
I saw a 17 year old kill a kitten when I was 12
He tossed it high in the air under the street lamp
Splat
It was sickening ...we wanted to cry but couldn’t show weakness And the murderer had saved me that same summer from a beating from downtown hoods who ventured out to skull our neighborhood girls one who was 14 and kinda put out...
When the older boys left we youngers took the kitty and buried it in the swamp
I still remember the piss smell....a wee mackerel tabby
That poor little 5 year old girl looked for her kitty next day....it was a working class white neighborhood with some bad seeds
That boy got drafted for Vietnam later that year with a John Wayne attitude and within weeks got his foot blowed off
....I can hear freeper applause from my front porch
If he had been my 17 year old, he’d have found out he wasn’t too big to get the beating of his life.
And probably's been enjoying disability checks ever since.
your story sounds like “Stand by Me”....