Caleb Powell — The Monarch Review
DEFILING BATHSHEBA – Caleb Powell
Monday, June 15, 2015 11:21 — 0 Comments
“…But the thing that David had done displeased the Lord.†Samuel II: Chapter 11 – Verse 27 Summer, 1985, I read the Bible, smoked pot, and discovered the tale of David. I also committed adultery. Love trumped the letter of the law. I finished high school that June. After a celebration, trashed on hard liquor and pot, I drove my parents’ 1977 Ford LTD station wagon into the trunk of a hemlock at the top of a cliff. Either the Lord or the tree saved my life. The damages: a broken arm, severe concussion, and a deep crimson scar that […]
The Crow Of Suspicion – Caleb Powell
Tuesday, January 22, 2013 12:03 — 0 Comments
Jorge counted two months left to serve when he met Mariano, a new arrival to the Casa de Detenção de Paraná, a penitentiary in southern Brazil.  Mariano faced two to four years. Jorge and Mariano had grown up in neighboring favelas outside the city of Londrina. They came from equal dirt: unknown fathers who left pregnant lovers to disappear back to Londrina and their spouses; mothers that died in sadness, leaving quasi-orphans to be raised by elder cousins and aunts. For them, the inchoate sense that “crime paid when nothing else did†hardened into certainty with age.
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