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Linda Takes a Shot at Marriage
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Short stories by David Satterlee
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Reading theater for two male voices.
It's hard to love a girl with her own shotgun.
Linda Takes a Shot at Marriage
from the book: Life Will Get You in the End: Short stories by David Satterlee
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Reading theater for two male voices.
It's hard to love a girl with her own shotgun.
Read by the author:
Linda Takes a Shot at Marriage
[Note: Contains questionable regional dialect, immature mature dialog, descriptive violence, and mild profanity. Dang, when you put it that way, I just want to blush a little bit.]
[For reading theater with two male voices]
That sure was a fine funeral service.
Yep, a very fine service.
Yep.
You just kinda felt his spirit there.
Well, Bobby always was kind of a lurker.
Mark my words: I figure he’d be keepin to his self in that there coffin.
Becky Sue once tol me she’d see him lurking regular out by her wood pile.
Hell, that weren’t Bobby. That were my cousin Roy.
Sure nuff?
Sure as I’m pure, white, and proud. Didn’t Roy ever take you out Sue lookin?
No, he never.
Why not? You queer or sumptin and I don’t know it?
You and me’s been huntin regular since we was little. You know I’m no such thing. Don’t be a fool. Besides, I was too ‘fraid of Becky Sue’s Daddy Zeke.
Now you’re the fool. Ever’body knowed that Becky Sue seen we was lookin—an she was showin—Even Daddy Zeke knowed it. But, he got so tired of
