Stop watching.
I was only a child and they made it sound like so
much fun. I went with them eagerly.
There’s
still time. Turn away.
How could I have known it would end like this?
Close your
eyes! Now!
But I didn’t.
The blast of a shotgun, the look on his face when he knew he’d been
betrayed, his body – lifeless in a bloody heap on the ground – all forever
burned into the cortex of my brain like the brand of a hot iron. The
scream exploded from the deepest part of my broken young heart…
They shot
Old Yeller!
