A Cat's Cradle

Nobody is innocent, nobody tells the truth...

Perhaps, in the darkness, Ralph thinks of the other child, the child he killed all those years ago. But he will not say so. He has served his time. He is older now. And the world has moved on.

Only his ailing mother – whose life he has ruined, who wishes he had been hanged – knows that he is out. She will not speak of him. Nobody wants him.

Nobody except Mary, a little girl from outside the village, who meets him one afternoon after chasing his mothers cat. Perhaps he thinks of the other child then, but he will not say so. There is really no connection.

The other child had been beautiful, which Mary wasnt. The other child wanted everything, whereas Mary wants nothing – only his friendship.

Everyone needs a friend. What could be the harm in that?

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