Betty with her nearly infinite memory and knowledge of the community and its citizens and her big rich jiggly-belly laughter. But now the problem is to report on those events that made him what he is now. My technique with this story is to illuminate Warren's character through the things people say about him. I know of no-one who has documented those midwestern stories. It's not Yoknapatopha, but the stories could be as rich. It's still Buffalo County - but what's the name of the town?Īnd maybe that's some part of my materials - Buffalo County. There are really two main characters here - Warren and the town. "The Bomb" could make a decent story, but Ephraim Warren's character must first be fleshed out. Or perhaps as a film short, on the order of "Ocurrence at Owl Creek Bridge." Perhaps a stageplay is its natural milieu, although I see most of the action taking place outside rather than inside. It's probably not suitable for Hollywood with its downbeat ending. It's a fairly small idea - I don't think it would require a novel's length. It could be done as a short story, I think, or as a film script. The father then kills himself, to face the darkness with his son. He dies with his hand in his father's, crying, as he did as a child, of his terrible fear of the dark. I think the telling must be done in the father's voice, recounting the story to the woman.Īnd although a being completely lacking in ordinary human empathy, conscience or pity, the son does, indeed, love his father. The story is in the boy's growing years, so the difficulty is in telling it without the dreaded flashbacks. The woman and the father become lovers during their search? Both love the son, and both recognize that he must be destroyed. In his search for his son the man encounters a young woman who knew and loved his son, and who was nearly one of his victims. When the father reads of the unsolved murders he gradually and reluctantly comes to recognize similarities with his son's earlier killing of the animals. He has known of his son's lack of social conscience since before the son's adolescence - the son was killed small wild animals, first birds and wild things he had found, and then neighbors' pets, in particularly creative and cruel ways. Reading news reports of a string of horrific murders, the father comes to recognize his son as the probable killer. The story is of a man who tracks and kills his socio-pathic son and then himself.
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