Wings Of Fire Short Story

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On July 22, 1991 Lionel called his son’s apartment multiple times. He had been missing for over a day, and neither Lionel nor his mother could get ahold of the 31 year old. The following morning, he tried again. The phone rang a few times, and finally, someone answered. “Is Jeff there?” He asked the stranger on the line. “Who is this?” the man asked. “I’m his father.” Lionel answered. “Where is Jeff?” “I’m with the Milwaukee Police Department. We’re investigating a homicide.” the reply left Lionel dumbfounded. “A homicide?” His son, murdered. The worst news a parent could ever receive. Someone had murdered his child. He immediately imagined his son as a murder victim - the possibility all too likely for shy, soft-spoken, passive Jeffrey. His low-self esteem, his new apartment in an unsafe neighborhood, his habit for having one too many beers - all made him a perfect target. Lionel easily could see his son coming home late at night, drunk and staggering, a ready target for mugging, for murder. “You mean Jeff’s been-” “No, not Jeff.” the man…show more content…
But Jeffrey hadn’t exactly had an upstanding history as a model son. From a young age he had withdrawn into himself, rarely speaking or smiling, possibly as a result of his mother’s unsteady mental health and his parent’s turbulent marriage and (later) divorce. He grew up with few friends, though in high school, he made a name for himself with his imitations of his mother’s psychotic episodes (to the delight and amusement of his newly-found fanclub), his dissection and experimentation of roadkill using acid, and his heavy drinking. Every morning before school, Jeffrey would gulp down an entire six pack of beer. Alcohol, as Jeffrey described it, was his “medicine” - it made him numb to the disturbing thoughts already plaguing his brain.. In one particularly alarming incident, Jeffrey displayed the mutilated head of a dog on a wooden stake in the woods of his neighborhood.

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