A lyrical and fictional story told in a young woman's point of view.
On his way back to his hometown Georgia from Candletop, a newly-wed man meets his best friend Andy Wo-Lo at Web's Bar. Andy sits him down to deliver the bad news that his new bride has been cheating on him with Seth Amos. Naturally, the guy starts showing signs of violent rage, even before Andy adds his confession that he himself has also slept with his best friend's woman.
Andy and the betrayed groom leave the bar and their friendship behind. The cheating bride is nowhere to be found. Her husband goes home to find the only thing that their (his and the narrator's) father had left them: a gun. He sets off with the intent to kill his ex-best-friend Andy.
Upon arriving at Andy's house, the man realizes that someone else (with small footprints) had already been there. Andy was already dead. The Georgia patrol had been around that area earlier and fired a random shot when he heard a disturbance.
The Mystery: Who killed Andy?
The judge dismisses a quick trial where he finds the narrator's older brother (newlywed groom) guilty of Andy's murder, even though he was innocent. The town hung an innocent man. No lawyer could have saved him; the judge was unfair during the trial. The traitorous wife was also murdered, except her body was never found.
It was the narrator, his sister, who murdered her brother's best friend and her brother's wife.
A lyrical and fictional story told in a young woman's point of view.
On his way back to his hometown Georgia from Candletop, a newly-wed man meets his best friend Andy Wo-Lo at Web's Bar. Andy sits him down to deliver the bad news that his new bride has been cheating on him with Seth Amos. Naturally, the guy starts showing signs of violent rage, even before Andy adds his confession that he himself has also slept with his best friend's woman.
Andy and the betrayed groom leave the bar and their friendship behind. The cheating bride is nowhere to be found. Her husband goes home to find the only thing that their (his and the narrator's) father had left them: a gun. He sets off with the intent to kill his ex-best-friend Andy.
Upon arriving at Andy's house, the man realizes that someone else (with small footprints) had already been there. Andy was already dead. The Georgia patrol had been around that area earlier and fired a random shot when he heard a disturbance.
The Mystery: Who killed Andy?
The judge dismisses a quick trial where he finds the narrator's older brother (newlywed groom) guilty of Andy's murder, even though he was innocent. The town hung an innocent man. No lawyer could have saved him; the judge was unfair during the trial. The traitorous wife was also murdered, except her body was never found.
It was the narrator, his sister, who murdered her brother's best friend and her brother's wife.
Quite poetic, if you ask me.